Quotes About Contemplation

abstract himself out of the moment

We were silent for a time, each of us troubled, and stubbornly tempting fate in our own ways.

Continuammo a fissarci per cinque lunghi secondi, mentre miriadi di mondi e vite parallele che avrebbero potuto essere e non saranno mai vorticavano intorno a noi.

I sat alone, on a boulder that was larger and flatter than most, and I smoked a cigarette. I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live.

I asked, pushing a canoe of thought out into the uncharted water of his ideas.

The rain grew heavier, but a restlessness I couldn't fight or understand kept me walking.

out at them, turning this way and that, his face cramped in an expression

The questions buzzed and swarmed in my whirling mind.

I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me.

Even God used silence as a strategy.

Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.

The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

This is what fun is like, said Rain, almost to herself.

Since 1948 I have spent every single day thinking how the economic and political worlds have changed.

I don't really have a worldview.

There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow - of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body - has been pleasant to dwell upon.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

I've never worried about life's big questions.

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.