Quotes About Contemplation

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.

Call in thy death's head there: tie up thy fears.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

A verse may find him who a sermon flies.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth.

Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by.

Edwards followed what he believed the proper procedure whenever contemplating a move: he agreed to convene an ad hoc council of clergy that would meet in May to advise him what to do.26

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

To begin to think is the beginning of disgust of the world.

When I am alone in the forest at night-time and jump from one tree to another, I often think that life is so strange.

Imagine a man in the ditch,The wheels of the overturned wreckStill spinning—I don't mean he despairs, I mean if he does notHe sees in the manner of poetry

The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do? — with an answer taking shape: nothing.

To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

Tyrion wondered what it would be like to have a twin, and decided that he would rather not know. Bad enough to face himself in a looking glass every day.

He watched them from a distance, as if he still sat in the window of his bedchamber, looking down on the yard below, seeing everything yet a part of nothing." - Bran

Sometimes," Catelyn said slowly, "the best thing you can do is nothing.

Cersei wondered what it would feel like to kiss another woman. Not lightly on the cheek, as was common courtesy amongst ladies of high birth, but full upon the lips. Taena's lips were very full. She wondered what it would feel like to suckle on those breasts, to lay the Myrish woman on her back and push her legs apart and use her as a man would use her.