Quotes About Contemplation

I am not active in sharing my views on social media but I observe a lot.

Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.

I pray before virtually every speech and virtually every major decision.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Read it slow as you can. It's like a fine meal. You don't want to gulp it, but savor it so you can taste it in your memory when you're lone done.

When had she gotten so isolated? When had her world shrunk so small?

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.

It seems melancholy weather." "I prefer to think of it more as weather designed for reflection." "You are the eternal optimist.

maybe only those who faced death daily were able to recognize that courages could be as quiet as a man's thoughts

Under every full moon, a woolgathering world idles.

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

Why is it, Mr. Poe, that I would sooner spend an hour with you in the"—again she laughed—"in the gloomiest contemplations than spend another minute speaking of dresses and baubles and the things that make most people happy?

Hij begreep niet waarom hij zoo oud moest worden, terwijl de dingen zoo langzaam voorbij gingen, stille voorbij, maar zóo slepend, als waren ze, de dingen van vroeger, spoken, die slierden heel lange sluiers langs heel lange paden, en als ritselden de sluiers over de warrelende bladeren, die neêrdwarrelden over het pad.

Zij bewoog niet, stond stil en staarde en vroeg zich af, of dit sterven was.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.