Quotes About Contemplation

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

Take more time, cover less ground.

The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around.

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

I'd like to have enough time and quiet To think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others' eyes, reflected.

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.

A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we're headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions.

For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.

Sometimes you feel the emotion. You think this might be my last pre-season or my last Champions League match. But, overall, those thoughts aren't important right now. But the time will soon come