Quotes About Contemplation

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

I have decided to quit as I.P.L. Chairman. It is a decision which I was pondering over for some time.

I was labelled a jinx. No one wanted to work with me. I was home for about six to eight months without any films. I did modeling. In fact, at one point, I contemplated quitting films. That's when director Ameer called me for 'Paruthiveeran' and I cannot thank him enough for it.

I was thinking very carefully about going into education, becoming a teacher, maybe becoming a rabbi.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'

What better way to enjoy rains than lazing around in your house and admiring nature.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

When I was on the motorbike in the Dakar Rally I had a lot of time to think.

I wake up when the time is double digits - 10, 11, 12 - and I make myself a cup of coffee and think about what I'm gonna do that day. Either I'm gonna set my house on fire or I'm gonna take pictures. I'm random.

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?'

I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.

I just feel like the garden is a place where you can explore humanity quite deeply.

I like to be on my own before I do a gig.

I love rumors. It gives me something to think about and enjoy.

I'm not a social guy. I don't like the constant media glare on everything I do.

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

La paura della morte si dileguò e le subentrò una meravigliosa indifferenza. Egli si distese come per dormire. Il cielo gemmato della notte d'agosto stava immobile sopra di lui. Fra i miliardi di stelle nessuna baluginava. Stefano era solo nel mondo e col mondo.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

So we sit there together the mountain and me, Li Po said, until only the mountain remains.