Quotes About Contemplation

Sometimes I don't even be realizing what's really going on. So sometimes you just gotta take a step back and soak it all in.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

As you get older, you kind of take a more sober view of life.

I don't enjoy being on social media or at events.

I don't party or socialize.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

I would enjoy sitting in a rocker... listening to soft music and contemplating the things of the universe. But such activity offers no challenge and makes no contribution.

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

For solace, I love a book that opens up my perspective.

We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

I owe my solitude to other people.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Solitude begets whimsies.