Quotes About Contemplation

Call me Ishmael. I am a schoolmaster, and whenever life got me down, I would leave my job and head for one special place. When my spirits needed restoring, I could always count on the sea.

Henry wondered all through the meal whether Warren

Tiktai tada mane ap?m? tikroji vienat?, ne užm?rytoji, netikroji, kuriai tamsu tarp sien? ir dar tamsiau už j?, o didžioji vienatv?, kuri yra šviesi kaip sodas be tvoros...

O senhor realmente está querendo chamar a honra de inércia do sentimento?

contemplating the incidents in their lives or condition which tradition has handed down to us

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn't say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

Every now and then you run up on one of those days when everything's in vain … a stone bummer from start to finish; and if you know what's good for you, on days like these you sort of hunker down in a safe corner and watch.

Ia em direção ao ferry e quando cheguei à esquina parei a ver o que ele fazia. Foi a última vez que o vi e lembro-me muito claramente. Caminhou pelo molhe e parou junto ao poste de um candeeiro, a olhar para o mar. O único ser vivo numa cidade morta das Caraíbas: uma figura alta num fato gasto de Palm Beach, o seu único fato, agora cheio de pó e manchado de relva, com os bolsos largos, sozinho num molhe no fim do mundo imerso nos seus pensamentos

That mania for doing things in private. Which meant, in practice, not doing anything at all. For what was there that one could do in private.

It is good to remove oneself sometimes and get a sense of perspective from a little further away.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

Thinking what had happened over in my mind, trying to figure out the whys and wherefores, see what lessons were to be learned, what signs to be read in it all.

For, in his opinion, to study nature was a form of worship.

James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.

One dreams all day as well as all night . . .

notes. I quietly took my place in the

She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began. She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.

He had been walking these roads, he thought, all his life.

I felt stifled. Everything I looked at reminded me of myself.

Beyond a certain age, a journey across the city becomes uncomfortably reflective...One day I too will prompt a moment's reflection in the passenger of a passing cab.

Don't leave me here with my mind, I thought.

Say it again slowly, that thing about the river.

Au-delà d'un certain âge, traverser la ville donne désagréablement à penser. Les adresses des morts s'accumulent.