Quotes About Contemplation

There's nothing more for me to see. The bridge is only a bridge, the river a river, the sky is a sky. This landscape is empty now, a place for Sunday runners. Or not empty: filled with whatever it is by itself, when I'm not looking.

I say, leave me alone, this is my winter, I will stay here if I choose

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.

I long for periods without saying anything at all. I can be free of words now, I can lapse back into wordlessness, I can sink back into the rhythyms of transience as if into bed.

This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for—the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing.

All I can hear now is the sound of my own heart, opening and closing, opening and closing.

he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]

And it's late at night: a cloudless night, as I observed while walking here. The full moon is out, casting her equivocal corpse-glow over all.

Chewing with my mind full. Stuff comes out my mouth." And

Doing a jigsaw was not an intelligence test, or a personality assesment programme; it was a pursuit that lay somewhere between creation and imitation and discovery and reverie.

You think too much,' said Ellis.

He ran both his hands through his hair, as if somehow that would straighten out his thoughts.

part. I must think of every objection she might

thinking: a rather prosaic, low-tech concept, easily forgotten and routinely underrated. But

Each guest had retired, as an animal retires with a bone to the back of its cage, to chew over some single obsession.

being stopped and

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

A minor point at such a moment.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

Philosophy begins with wonder.

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.