Quotes About Contemplation

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

I had never been much for outdoor activities.

I'm really outgoing, but there's times I want to be by myself.

The visit hadn't lasted much longer, and Wallace never said what he'd done, but after Larry watched him go, he'd spent the rest of the night on his porch as daylight crept through the trees like am army of crafty boys.

He looked out across the field. He seemed to have forgotten where he was, and for a while Larry rocked, bats fluttering over his view and crickets chirping in the monkey grass along the edge of the porch and his mother's wind chime jingling, delicate notes too tender to be metal, more like soft bone on wire; he'd always thought the chime sounded like a skeleton playing a guitar, and for a time they sat together on the porch and watched the sun scald the sky red and the trees black.

that she might slip off into that space where she stared, go for good to whatever she kept watching.

I'd never thought much about the moon before I got this job. But I love it here. I can spend hours just looking out at the stars and the rocks. It makes me feel very peaceful.

The fish fanciers, sitting by their ponds and gazing into their depths, were tracing shadows darker than they understood.

Thanks anyway,' Vanderdecker repeated, and wandered off to have a stare at the sea. It was his equivalent to beating his head repeatedly against a wall.

Friedrich Nietzsche said, "All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

The unexamined life isn't worth the high price that you must pay for it.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.

Traffic is more of the in between time where we think more about where we are going than where we are at the moment.

I've seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train...

Do you think that Jesus looked both ways before crossing?

La pedra, i no els pensaments, és el que fa cercles en el gorg.

Silence. Stillness. To give her soul a chance to attend its own affairs at its own level.

They bought boiled peanuts from every vendor they spied alongside the road and had important theological discussions as the miles slipped away.

If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since