Quotes About Contemplation

Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

The exaltation of understanding; then understanding's bottomless regret.

An invisible gas clouds his thoughts, exhaust from a bus left with its engine running in the middle of his brain.

For the only true sequel is the one that flickers briefly into being in your mind, O my friend by the fireside, in the moments after you read the last paragraph and lay the book down.

As he contemplates the bowl of meatballs, his body emits a weary sound, a Yiddish sound, halfway between a belch and a lamentation.

When she first saw him, standing at the threshold of the reception room, contemplating departure before he had even arrived, she thought he had an American face, an American body. Buick shoulders, bulldozer jaw. Only if you considered his eyes would you be forced to conclude, and she did conclude, that he was beautiful.

Maybe God doesn't want this tower," my grandmother theorized. She was standing in the middle of the living room, holding my grandfather's coat and briefcase and the crumpled mess of his newspaper. "Because from the top of it, people they can look inside of His house and see He is a big pork.

man coming toward him over the ice, watching

When you have more to look back at than forward to, you start thinking about the things you've done.

Donovan stared at the car silently, contemplating it the way a matador looks at the bull he is going to fight.

the morning before. Bosch thought

turned the car around and it floated quietly down Lookout Mountain to Laurel Canyon. He took a right and drove to the canyon market, where he bought a six-pack of Anchor Steam. Then he took his beer and his questions back up the hill to Mulholland. He drove to Woodrow Wilson Drive and then down to his small house that stood on cantilevers and looked out across the Cahuenga Pass.

Gearson se rascó el labio inferior con un dedo y

situation and to decide

didn't move his eyes from the word even as

Bosch let her go. For a long time, he didn't move. Her words had gone through him like the sounds of a roller coaster. Low rumbling and high shrieks.

Knowing that the instrument could produce a sound that echoed all the sadness and hope of humanity gave him pause.

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Whoever you are, some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." ALBERT EINSTEIN

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