Quotes About Contemplation

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

In ten years time I'll be… (dead) sixty.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts.

Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

To philosophize is to learn to die.

To you things that aren't thinkable in intellectual terms aren't worth thinking about.

All the great thoughts he had not reached were beyond enumeration; there was no bottom to what he did not have to say about the meaning of his life.

I don't think you ever gave isolation a real shot. It's the best preparation I know of for death.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

In God's presence I feel small because I am small.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Let him who is about to accuse God consider the greatness of the God accused.

The quieter the mind," said Meister Eckhart, "the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant