Quotes About Contemplation

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Nekem megvan a magam külön szótára: akkor múlatom az idÅ't, ha rossz és kellemetlen; ha jó, nem akarom elmúlatni: ízlelem, belékapaszkodom. A rosszon át kell futni, a jóban meg kell pihenni.

Onun için kalabal?ktan kaçmak yetmez, bir yerden baÅŸka bir yere gitmekle iÅŸ bitmez. Ä°çimizdeki kalabal?ktan kurtulmam?z, kendimizi kendimizden koparmam?z gerek, böyle anlarda.

Nemo in sese tentat descendere Kimse kendi içine inmeye çal??maz Persius Bense kendi içimde yuvarlan?p gidiyorum.

It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilise the innumerable flutterings that agitate it.

I want something for myself, Grania was thinking, staring at her folded and clenched hands.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

Remember Bacon's recommendation to the reader: "Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

TURN THE PAGES, DIPPING IN HERE AND THERE, READING A PARAGRAPH OR TWO, SOMETIMES SEVERAL PAGES IN SEQUENCE, NEVER MORE THAN THAT.

But we could not live in this world if we were not able, from time to time, to get away from it.

Insufficient respect for mystery leads to intellectual suicide; insufficient penetration of mystery leads to shallowness and despair.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Read it quickly and with total immersion.

importance of letting an imaginative book work on you.

But still, he reflected, I ought to wash my pajamas more often. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed. --Tengo, IQ84

As Genji mused about the transitory nature of life, intense feelings of weariness and distaste for the world overwhelmed him. How much longer must he go on living in it now that he had been left behind?

Sve je besciljno na mome putu kroz oblake. Stid me je što me postojani mjesec uop?e gleda.

Remember you must die.

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practise which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.

If you don't remember Death, Death reminds you to do so. And if you can't cope with the facts the next best thing is to go away for a holiday.

You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can.

Godfrey's wife Charmian sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all, since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology.

Miss Brodie liked to take her leisure over the unfolding of her plans, most of her joy deriving from the preparation