Quotes About Contemplation

He found the bullets for the gun and contemplated suicide.

He paused to consider.

alone. "I think it is unlikely you have it

He hesitated before going on.

I am listening in that fine space between desire and always the grave stillness before choice.

Han tände en cigarr och ställde sig att betrakta porträttet. Den som observerat hans ansikte nu, skulle icke kunna se hans tankar, ty han hade redan lärt sig så mycket om livets konst att han icke en gång anförtrodde ensamheten sina meningar, ja, han fruktade till och med att meddela sig med sig själv.

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

I'm tired of living in the shallow end of the pool.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

There are no evil thoughts, Mr. Rearden, Francisco said softly, except one: the refusal to think.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

Then she remembered.

She looked slowly about her, noting every object and the reason for its presence.

Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities among the chances of life.

Elizabeth] Bishop's poetry gave me something that I hadn't found before. A space to breathe.

It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

Few places favor meditation more than the desert

Was it possible for thought to exist without consciousness?

Kris," Harey whispered even more softly than before. I felt rather than heard her coming noiselessly up to me, and I pretended I hadn't noticed. At that moment I wanted to be alone. I had to be alone. I still hadn't found strength inside myself. I'd reached no decision, no resolution. As I stared at the darkening sky, at the stars that were only a spectral shadow of terrestrial stars, I stood there motionless; in the emptiness that was gradually

First I thought to fill this void that is I, and thereby dispel its insufferable monotony. So let us think of something, for when we think, behold, there is thought, and naught but our thought has existence.

A physicist never thinks that Someone has set the electrons in their orbits for the express purpose of making him, the physicist, rack his brains over orbital configurations.