Quotes About Contemplation

The first thing reading teaches us is how to be alone

Leila would have been well advised, before marrying a novelist or imagining herself as one, to wait and sample life in a house where a big book was being contemplated.

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk. Between prison and no prison, no prison was clearly preferable.

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going through with it, and it had the added benefit of not entailing risk.

It was the prospect of another two or three or five years of sex in the ashes that made me think of death.

The clacking of the checkers on the hardwood points was the music of honest thought, resounding in silence as it navigated the fortunes told by the pips on the dice.

What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

I wasn't having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

There are times when one needs to disappear while in the living room, and sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will

Alone, one can live perfectly. But not a life.

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes (those we need to see dim objects) are on the edges of the region we normally use for focusing. Eating animals has an invisible quality. Thinking about dogs, and their relationship to the animals we eat, is one way of looking askance and making something invisible visible.

sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living.

Am stat cuibariti cateva momente, apoi ne-am intins amandoi pe spate si iarba era ca un pat. Pentru ca era asa de intuneric, puteam vedea multe dintre stele. Era ca si cand ne-am fi aflat sub o umbrela mare sau sub o rochie. Am vorbit multe minute despre multe lucruri, dar de fapt eu nu-l ascultam si nici el nu ma asculta, si eu nu ma ascultam pe mine, iar el nu se asculta pe sine. Ne aflam pe iarba, sub stele si asta este ceea ce faceam.

She let the dust accumulate on her shoulders.

Give it a try. Bellybutton." "Bellybutton doesn't make me think of anything." "Dig deep." "In my bellybutton?" "In your brain, Oskar." "Uh." "Bellybutton. Bellybutton." "Stomach anus?

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Aloneness isn't loneliness.

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.

En el pasado, quien deseaba explorar los misterios más profundos de la vida se recluía en un monasterio o llevaba una vida ermitaña; en la actualidad, las relaciones íntimas se han convertido, para muchos de nosotros, en la nueva tierra indómita que nos coloca cara a cara con todos nuestros dioses y demonios.

Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.