Quotes About Contemplation

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

How do you get me into these fucking conversations? You think too fucking much.

sentimentality being an emotion that for me usually attends later in the night.

Give me my Scallop shell of quiet.

And although I wanted to think about him, it would have to wait until the next day, perhaps until I was on the subway, where I seem to have most of my more interesting thoughts.

Well. I don't know where to start. What to say. What to think.

I was thinking about that, my heart suddenly full of despair.

Some walks you have to take alone.

Why...do you find this...distracting?

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

I don't want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

Su cara toma una expresión especial cuando se concentra. Su expresión habitualmente relajada es reemplazada por algo más intenso y lejano que sugiere todo un mundo encerrado dentro de él.

Floating on my back, as I am now,

He understands I don't want anyone with me today. Not even him. Some walks you have to take alone.

You know what I won't miss? People. Except for a handful. They're mostly awful, if you think about it.

Does he remember that?

A chill runs through me. Am I really that cold and calculating?

Some walks you have to take alone. The

Maybe I'd think that, too,

She tried to keep busy, but each afternoon she was drawn into the courtyard or up into the pavilion, where she sat as still as a pool of water. It was as if she feared she'd fly away into a million pieces if she moved.

The thing about being on the trail is that you have hours and hours to think, so at first you review the things you have been thinking about. Then you have the thoughts you were planning to have. But after that you still have thinking time and no planned thoughts, so you start to think about things you never expected to think about.

I'm feeling so much and thinking so little.