Quotes About Contemplation

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Death lasts only a moment, but you think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, Mais on y pense chaque instant)

Silence is an ornament which is visible from inside. (Le silence est une parure Qui se voit de l'intérieur)

Silence is an ornament which is visible from the inside. (Le silence est une parure Qui se voit de l'intérieur)

The less men think, the more they talk.

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

[S]he... paced the staircase-gallery outside, looked out of the window on the night, listened to the wind blowing and the rain falling, sat down and watched the faces in the fire, got up and watched the moon flying like a storm-driven ship through the sea of clouds.

He stood looking after them... as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece.

and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.

I am saying nothing.

I went home, with new matters for my thoughts, though with no relief from the old.

A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pitty in all the glittering multitude.

Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man to have so inexhaustible a subject.

Upon which, every man looked at his neighbour, and then all cast down their eyes and sat silent. Except one man, who got up and went out.

growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here.

it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

The mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

Un fapt curios, vrednic s? meditezi asupr?-i, e acela c? fiecare f?ptur? omeneasc? a fost astfel alc?tuit? încât s? prezinte o tain? adânc? ?i un mister pentru orice alt? f?ptur?.

We have been indulging,'' [...] "in an intellectual evening.

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...