Quotes About Contemplation

My greatest treasure is my thoughts.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Thoughtfulness is the way to deathlessness, thoughtlessness the way to death. The thoughtful do not die: the thoughtless are as if dead already.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Everything I do has the tinge of the finite, of my own demise. At some point you either accept death or you just keep pushing it back as you get older and older. I've accepted it.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.