Quotes About Contemplation

I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.

But having sailed some time ago Into the quiet cardigan harbour of my life," (42)

are we just avoiding our one true destiny when we do that, averting our glance from Philip Larkin who waits for us in an undertaker's coat?

You can linger too long in your dreams...

Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

We must sit by these rivers, not under or in them, but above, not standing upright, but sitting down, so that we remain humble by sitting, and safe by remaining above.

Nada nos puede consolar cuando lo pensamos detenidamente.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

VÅ¡etky problémy ?udstva pramenia z neschopnosti ?loveka sedieÃ…Â¥ v miestnosti ticho a sám.

all humanity's problems stem from an inability to sit in a quiet room alone." Johnson, Fenton. At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life (p. 229). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.

Let us then strive to think well; that is basic principle of morality. (54)

Todas las miserias de la humanidad se deben a una sola cosa: a que somos incapaces de estar sentados solos y en silencio en una habitación

Todos los problemas de la humanidad parten de la incapacidad humana de sentarse calmado en una habitación.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone

Just as important, thinking about an exit plan will force you to ask important, difficult questions about yourself.

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

In the dime stores and bus stations/ People talk of situations/ Read books, repeat quotations/ Draw conclusions on the wall

Remembrance of things past, I do that all the time.