Quotes About Contemplation

it is not fly fishing if you are not looking for answers to questions.

That's how you know when you have thought too much-- when you become a dialogue between You'll probably lose and You're sure to lose.

I am haunted by waters.

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only a floating ash.

Eventually the watcher joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.

I am ready to be alone.

Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

No stories were viral. No celebrity was trending. The world was still big. The country was still vast. You could just be a little person, with your own little life and your own little thoughts. You didn't have to have an opinion, and nobody cared if you did or did not. You could be alone on purpose, even in a crowd.

Modern people hate American Beauty for the same reason people in 1999 loved American Beauty: It examines the interior problems of upper-middle-class white people living in the late twentieth century—the kind of people who voted for Bill Clinton twice and (perhaps) saw fragments of their own lives within the problems he created for himself. And it was, in all probability, the last time in history such problems would be considered worthy of contemplation.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

I want to have your abortion.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list...Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you're always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you'll get done. The resume of your future.

Leggere non è un passatempo da comitiva. Non è come andare a vedere un film o assistere a un concerto. È il margine più solitario dello spettro.

My mom would tell you, This is one of those Hamlet moments. Meaning: You need to make a significant effort to determine whether you're to be or not to be.

Dneska je nejdelÅ¡í den roku – ale co z toho, to je pÃ…â"¢ece každý.

There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul. It is philosophy, whose aid need not be sought, as in bodily diseases, from outside ourselves. We must endeavor with all our resources and all our strength to become capable of doctoring ourselves.

Nothing is too absurd for some philosopher to have said it.

Wat kan in de bezigheden der mensen van belang lijken voor een man die de eeuwigheid voor ogen houdt en zich bewust is van de uitgestrektheid van het universum?

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis

There's almost always a calmer and ultimately more efficient way to do something if you just stop and think about it.

A life of usefulness, literature and religion, was not by any means a life of event.

Yet it had only been two weeks, barely a drop in the bucket of her twenty-seven years on the planet. Was that really enough time to make such a momentous decision as would be asked of her tonight? Yet

She wished they'd had more time, say an hour or a week or maybe a few years, to figure this all out.

All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.