Quotes About Contemplation

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?'

To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Is anything worth it?

I honestly feel it could all end tomorrow. Not just the band thing - I mean life.

I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing.

Go out tonight and look at the stars. And allow yourself to dream.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Slow down, everyone. You're moving too fast.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

He who considers too much will perform little.

I talk too much.

I talk too much and I don't listen or pause to think.

Lady Amelia Windsor

I spend... too much time... in my own head.

What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.