Quotes About Contemplation

Helga Crane was silent, feeling a mystifying yearning which sang and throbbed in her.

But if I could choose how and when I wanted to die, I would want to be an eighty-year-old man shot by a jealous young husband who had caught me in bed with his teenage wife.

Stop talking. Can't you see I'm detecting?

Observation precedes vision.

Once you had a solid base and sufficient knowledge, and respect for the essential facts and real needs of life, nothing rivaled careful observation and contemplation fired by a passion for the invention of new means for experiencing life.

Recall is an act of disciplined reimagination, and the remote past may be beyond anyone's ken.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it...

Most people don't know how to appreciate the silence. They can't help talking.

More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.

You don't feel the need to talk all the time, do you, she said. He smiled. No. Most people don't know how to appreciate silence. They can't help talking. I talk, I just want to have something to say first.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wondered what she'd thought about his life, hoping it would somehow make a difference, if it could.

What do you like most about being here? The quiet. When I'm here, no one asks me questions or asks me to do stuff. I can sit here and think.

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day.

As he lay on the couch, he reflected that he wanted to be the same kind of father someday.

there are moments when I'm struck by a deep sense of wonder.

She hesitated, torn between excitement and terror, amazed that she was actually considering it.

I do a lot of thinking about my work while I'm walking. More in the early morning when I'm trekking in the mountains. When I'm walking in the city, I think more about people around me - my brothers, my wife, some business situation, commitments.

I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.

When you can stand over the clouds and watch them roll through the mountains below you, it shifts absolutely everything in your brain.

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

Communicating with people was found to be like suffering judgment. In fact, it was almost impossible for me to dwell upon earthly matters, and equally impossible for me to bring the mind down to mundane thoughts and general conversations.