Quotes About Contemplation

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular moment I am certainly not happy.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

The arctic loneliness of age.

Are mathematical ideas invented or discovered? This question has been repeatedly posed by philosophers through the ages and will probably be with us forever.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

Spend some time alone every day.

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the blocking and the setups in private and quiet.