Quotes About Contemplation

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Writers are not meant for action.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

I have a beautiful sofa, which is my writing corner, on which I sit every day and look outside the window.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

Kendi ölümünün düÅŸünü kurabilmek, ne armaÄŸan ama...

Rain spoke as slowly as she could, working her way like a tightrope artist across her thoughts, feeling them an instant before walking the words out.

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

Para a alma, cada instante sempre é um minuto mais próximo do julgamento

How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak reveals of my new circumstances? Or is that every day of my life?

The knowledge and contemplation that comes about through creatures is called 'natural law' Thus, even before the patriarchs and prophets and the written law, it summoned the human race and returned it to God, and showed indirectly the Creator to those who did not abandon the natural knowledge of the wise among the Greeks.

do once in a while.

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking

Six mirrors keep staring at one another (Monday rue Christine)

By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

Ne lisez pas comme les enfants lisent, pour vous amuser, ni comme les ambitieux lisent, pour vous instruire. Non. Lisez pour vivre.