Quotes About Contemplation

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.

When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.

Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

Some people observe life naturally and sometimes you just have to let things out and think about it later.

I'm trying to understand my life. The one that I've experienced.

Watch,witness,observe your thoughts-without any judgement,without any condemnation or evaluation.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

Four times a year withdraw for three to four hours for the purpose of reorienting your life goals

If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.

A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

I don't have any social life or anything.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Too often in life we pass by important things. Let's pause, change perspective and see things more clearly.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.