Quotes About Contemplation

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.

He went through the old motions of his life, taking care of what needed caring for, keeping mostly quiet about what was on his mind. But his hard waiting changed him; you could see it in his face.

It seemed to us that we'd never thought of him before as a man who would die. He never had thought of himself in that way. Until that year, although he'd cursed his weakness and his age, he'd either ignored the idea of his death or had refused to believe in it. He'd only thought of himself as living.

make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came. Wendell Berry

He stands under them, looks up, sees, knows, and knows that he does not know.

There is time, and then there is timelessness. And if you're lucky, and if you can be still enough, observant enough, you may be able to know and speak about that intersection of time and timelessness, or time and eternity.

We stood and looked and knowed it was all the time we had and from now on we must remember. We must look now forever.

You could say the place had a pious atmosphere. It was an atmosphere that I finally had to think about, and when I thought about it I had to admit that I could not get comfortable in it; I could not breathe a full breath in it.

Look in and see him looking out. He is not always quiet, but there have been times when happiness has come to him, unasked, like the stillness on the water that holds the evening clear while it subsides - and he let go what he was not.

Accept what comes from silence. Make the best you can of it. Of the little words that come out of the silence, like prayers prayed back to the one who prays, make a poem that does not disturb the silence from which it came.

It has always taken me a long time to think of something to say, and then more often than not I say it to myself.

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness.

It is a question with me still, and the answer has altogether disappeared from the world.