Quotes About Contemplation

Blink at the sunned scratch and stumble into silence

There is a stillness in the air, in the light of the dusk, in the eyes fixed forward, in the still end of life, an intolerable sweetness...

Think long thoughts in short sentences.

There were times when Pizlo knew he thought too much, and other times when he thought he knew too much. This time was neither of those.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

What modern man wants is a monk's cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look at the stars. Page 59

as they are never more at home with their own hearts while so occupied. —Nathaniel

Humour is the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life.

She glanced over abstractedly, still keeping company with her most recent thought.

He spoke slowly; I had a sense he was groping between words for the thread of his own thoughts.

I have an inability to consider a thing without imagining the story behind it as a needful force, a great petitioning weight.

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Eve looked at Greta and wondered if she was seeing her future, moving halfway across the country and spending her days cleaning up after death. Then again, wasn't that what she was doing now, only without the soap and sponge?

My idea of a good time is sitting quietly with my own thoughts and not making eye contact with anyone.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

You can only have one thought at a time- make it a good one.

I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.

It took him years to learn the value of silence, the power of carefully chosen words.

One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.

there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

Morning is one of the best times for thinking. When one has just woken up, but hasn't yet gotten out of bed, it is a perfect time to look up at the ceiling, consider one's life, and wonder what the future will hold.