Quotes About Contemplation

When you don't know what to do, do nothing.

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

It is introspective, and I want to introspect.

I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather--that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times.

A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of human experience this lonely woman had strayed into.

I knew perfectly well what it was over which he was brooding.

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together. "It is simplicity itself

me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.

She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it. A Place in the Country

It was not pleasant sitting on the porch after Tony had gone; a spot where two people have been talking, however briefly, is not after that a spot for one person to sit alone.

I´m tired, Natalie told herself sadly, and was quiet

It's the home I've always dreamed of, Theodora said. A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. Particularly if my thoughts happened to be about murder or suicide or-

Looking up as she did immediately, she saw immeasurable space, traveling past the locked hands of the trees, past the large nodding implacable heads, up and into the silence of the sky, where the stars remained, indifferent.

As I stood there thinking, I saw a general with as many medals as I got hair, sitting at a front table at the outdoor cafe on Fankonin.

Thinking of the dead," says my mother, "makes you wonder about the living …

Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself

HE TURNED AROUND AND LOOKED BACK down the empty church

When it comes to the small matters in life one should think long and hard, but when it comes to the big ones -whether or not to marry, whether to have children- one should just go ahead and do it

Thought is action in rehearsal.

The injunction that before making a final decision in any matter one should sleep on it for a night is obviously fully justified.

me hallaba sumido en la contemplación de la encantadora lejanía, cuando a mi espalda resonó la pregunta: «El señor es médico, ¿verdad?», que al principio no creí fuera dirigida a mí: tan olvidado de mí mismo estaba.

The sound of a pen scratching in the night is a holy sound.

LOL-inspiring thought: Wouldn't it

Prayers, fasts, everything he had practiced because he had been taught to do so, suddenly seemed new to him—weapons in a glorious war for which he longed. Perhaps he would become a monk—or a priest