Quotes About Contemplation

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

In real life, I'm not the center of attention; I'm in the back, and I listen. So when it comes to writing, I just let it all out.

It's normal if Real Madrid call you, you think about it.

When I would meditate, I realised I could master my mind.

I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

I do sometimes stop and think. I mean, I'm 62 now and I've got a child on my shoulders and he could be my grandson.

In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

I don't know if I'm the most religious guy, but I think I'm a spiritual man, and these are the things I think about a lot. In terms of the film, I think 'The Grey' is very much a non-denominational kind of film. I don't think it's something that relies on a particular religious bent to tell the story.

I keep to myself a lot, I guess.

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.

I don't like rushing, just like to sit down and rest before a match. Half the time I don't even look at the draw.

Louise was shaken by this realization but remained composed.

Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots—" "What?" "Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.

The point? It is a ceremony, to quiet the mind, before conversation;

detenerse...

So. So. So here I am." And there it is, he thought. For

Sometimes it is good to think of old things, old ways, and do the old stories when there is nothing to do but wait.

Rumination is the coin of my realm. Interiority breeds interiority.