Quotes About Contemplation

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

As you enter positions of trust and power," Toni Morrison wrote, "dream a little before you think.

those who are willing to enter the woods of self-examination in order to retrieve what was never really lost.

Most people don´t like to think, period.

The rocks fell where she laid them with a faint flat sound, and the afternoon seemed very still back of the dove calls and the cries of the plovers, back of a faint dying phrase, 'in the time of man'.

You could believe in God, looking at James. He looked at himself, and decided not to.

I'd performed numerous calculations on the abacus of my soul concerning the price of the room and the loveliness of the slipper tub.

Everyone knows that it's noble to go to museums unaccompanied. Look at us solitary exhibition gawkers: We pause to read the captions, we wander the rooms at a thoughtful speed, we think things, and therefore we're allowed to drink early and often.

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For who plans suicide sitting in the sun?

A friend had said to me once, "Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing." And what I was doing that year was leaving, even though I had not yet left.

It's our duty to bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can.

Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing.

Bob was not a young man, and he knew about loss. He knew the quiet that arrived, the blinding force of panic, and he knew that each loss brought with it some odd, barely acknowledged sense of release. He was not an especially contemplative person, and he did not dwell on this. But by October there were many days when the swell of rightness, loose-limbedness, and gentle gravity came to him. It recalled to him being a child, when he found one day he could finally color within the lines.

It was a sad moment. There are sad moments in life, and this was one of them.

Now the dismal autumn days have begun and one has to try and get light from within.

But in Jim O'Casey there had been a wariness, a quiet anger, and she had seen herself in him, had said to him once, We're both cut from the same piece of bad cloth. He had just watched her, eating his apple.

He understood that he was a seventy-four-year-old man who looks back at life and marvels that it unfolded as it did, who feels unbearable regret for all the mistakes made.

For the first time in years he thought about God, who seemed a piggy bank Harmon had stuck up on a shelf and had now brought down to look at with a new considering eye

He said slowly, "Bobby Burgess." There was a faint smile to his mouth. "King of the profound.

So much of life seems speculation.

A friend had said to me once, 'Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing.

The privacy of sorrow.

Whenever I don't know what to do, I watch what I am doing.