Quotes About Contemplation

A guy needs a place where he can gaze into the ocean and sort things out." It

She lit a cigarette and spent a moment identifying with the smoldering match.

She couldn't swim, but enjoyed standing at the water's edge with a pole in her hand. It wasn't exactly what you'd call fishing, as she caught nothing and expressed neither hope nor disappointment in regard to her efforts. What she thought about while looking at the waves was a complete mystery, yet you could tell that these thoughts pleased her, and that she liked herself better while thinking them.

a detached corner of Fofão's brain said.

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

I believe our recognition of reality's complex dimensions is a consequence of our solitude.

tiptoe to the water's edge. They show their raiments.

Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously. He stared at the crucifix, balancing between utter belief and utter disbelief.

communion with God in the middle of bags of flour

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

You sometimes feel that reading books is the only way you can think, as if the reading occupied one part of your brain and this allowed the other part to go free and become more active. You need that time to read in order to think. That's all there is to it.

You should take something to cheer you up a little. Just a little. Just enough so that you don't seem to be wandering loose all day in Bagneux cemetery.

I accept that I've lost the game of life in the same way that one loses at solitaire.

Pero cuánto durará esta belleza? A las mujeres nos entristece pensar en eso

I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.

oricat de bland si bun ar fi omul, tot are cugetul framantat dintr-o pricina sau alta.

Estoy intentando pensar como los ancianos que están más tristes que yo

Out of three or four in a room One is always standing at the window Hair dark above his thoughts Behind him the words And in front of him the words, wandering without luggage Hearts without provision, prophecies without water, And big stones put there And stayed, closed, like letters, With no adresses; and no one to receive them.

Who am I? The great inquiry indeed.

He didn't get depressed, but he managed this not by looking away but by looking closely, attending to each logical step in any particular problem, so that the problem itself filled all available mental space.

And even before he said it, he wondered why he had to, why he felt so malevolent this evening.

I felt I was losing track of my physical location, rising above my body, viewing my life from a very distant point, hovering over it.