Quotes About Contemplation

Whenever any subject so forcibly affects the mind, time is well spent in thinking of it.

Poichè il destino e gli eventi li avevano tenuti per tanto tempo separati, occorrevva che qualche cosa di lieve e come indifferente corresse avanti ad aprire le porte dell'anima a parole più gravi, suggerite da più gravi pensieri.

Was it my lot in life to stand forever on heaven's shores watching the glittering swirl of celestial bodies on the other side?

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

You may ask any question. Some, however, must be answered by silence

The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass... ...and for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night. My God... what have we done?

I conclude it would be a good place to be alone with my thoughts, but I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

Her eyes are open and her mind is somewhere else.

He tries to think of other things, other places, but his mind keeps being drawn back to this place. Everyone's so close around him now. Yellow figures lean all around him like flower petals closing in. He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

What do I see when I close my eyes? I see beyond darkness, and it is immeasurably grand both above me and below.

As Ariadne led him to the massage tent, Rowan thought, In eight months I am going to die. So perhaps he could allow himself a little indulgence on the way.

His one-eight feels a whole lot bigger when I spend time hanging around in his grey matter.

submission. Is that the world you want to live in?

Would she do it if he asked? Definitely not. Probably not. Maybe not.

Now he was so deep in his own unsavorism, he wasn't quite sure he wanted to come up for air.

Why must everyone always ask me what I believe in? Why must I believe in anything at all right now? Can't I just have some time to think about it first?

Sorry, Your Honor; I was just thinking. Too much of that can be dangerous.

Free man, you will always cherish the sea! The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul In the infinite unrolling of its billows; Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter.

Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée.

Celui dont les pensers, comme des alouettes, Vers les cieux le matin prennent un libre essor, — Qui plane sur la vie, et comprend sans effort Le langage des fleurs et des choses muettes !

Vom roade-al nostru suflet în mut? convorbire Nainte s? d?m ochii cu marea Pl?zmuire

al mandadero del barrio y estará dispuesto a jugar a los naipes con él». Estas palabras me hicieron pensar en Maquiavelo jugando a los dados con los campesinos.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.