Quotes About Contemplation

Thoughts carry a great deal of freight.

Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

Beautiful day for a funeral, I thought.

It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

Sir, say no more.Within me 't is as ifThe green and climbing eyesight of a catCrawled near my mind's poor birds.

Whatever depends on conditions Is empty of inherent existence, What excellent instruction could there be, More amazing than these words?

All right, shutting up now,

At night, without the distant hint of sunlight, the room felt colder and more hollow. Clay stretched up and sniffed at the darkness that had fallen on the other side of the hole. He thought it smelled like stars.

It was a little unsettling how quiet the skies were. Clay

Are we — um, does this mean —

THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS THINK ABOUT COWS.

down and down, toward the sea.

Starflight had to sit down and fold his wings over his head for a minute.

Hmm. I don't know if that's a 'yes' or a 'go eat worms,'" Rollan admitted.

Qibli to see the heartbreaking look that swept across her face. She glanced down at her talons and

The problem was, he felt it now.

for? There was a moment of silence down below, and

Sitting beside a deathbed, staring into the face of life's fragility, leaves us no secure corner to hide. It is always a powerful wake-up call.

Bless me to sincerely be aware of death.

Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists.

Yet whether wisdom can be any more profitably pursued than happiness is a question.

Stephen reflected for some little while on the exact degree of calculated incivility allowed in a well-bred man.

nunc et in hora mortis nostrae,' he repeated yet again, and felt the lap of water on his foot. He looked up. The people had gone; the pyre was no more than a dark patch with the sea hissing in its embers; and he was alone. The tide was rising fast.

He considered old age and its mutilations and wondered what it would do for him: