Quotes About Contemplation

Alone is where I be sometimes away from the voices and ideas of the world so I can reflect on my own.

Sometimes I just want to be let alone in my room and cry for no reason, somehow makes me realize many things in life.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

Being alone makes you learn a lot about yourself.

It's just the meaning of being alone

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

A day alone, only that would be death.

One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

This thought is as a death.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.

However much one lacks piety, the atmosphere in a graveyard encourages quiet reflection.

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

I see two lovers looking over the edge of the cauldron of hell. Are they contemplating a double suicide? This means their love will end in hell.' I couldn't stop laughing.

Stay inside your head long enough and you may get trapped there.

A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

He tried to think of death as he had done now and then, but that tired him and he dozed off. When he awoke an hour later, he felt fresh and calm as though he had slept for days.

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha Christie

I'd like to take a long walk, to the edge of something.