Quotes About Contemplation

Everyone should have this, he thought, and perhaps, at the end, everyone does. Perhaps in their time of dying, everyone rises.

In these silences something may rise

The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.

I believe there's another dozen thoughts lined up behind each one I'm aware of.

In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom.

I suppose it doesn't matter much. A lot of things don't matter, but it doesn't keep a man from wondering about them, I've noticed.

That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull

He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Pissing and thinking have a lot in common, he thought. You can put them both off.. But not forever.

Philosophers have debated the meaning of life for centuries, rarely coming to the same conclusion.

Our world needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. – Mister Rogers.

Old age begins when reflection overcomes planning.

Sometimes, You need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

Traveling is as subtle as an early morning reverence.

I was overlooking the heights and I felt somewhere in between!

if i had forever to do whatever i wanted, i would spend three years in reality and spend the rest of my time just thinking and decrypting what i saw and what would have happened to make it like so.

Whats on my mind? I think the question is, where is my mind?

Life isn't about just talking, it's about thinking too.

No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!

Look at yourself and look into the eyes you've been looking at your entire life. Recognize your SPIRIT. You are the reflection of life.