Quotes About Pondering

Consider the horse' They considered it.

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep –

Ogni tanto mi chiedo cosa mai stiamo aspettando. Silenzio. Che sia troppo tardi, madame.

Growing up, loving, having children, growing old—and all this while we are elsewhere, in the long time of an answer that doesn't arrive, or of a gesture that doesn't end. How many paths, and at what a different pace we retrace them, in what seems a single journey.

is under active consideration.

You haven't offended me at all. You've made me think. That's all.

been able to find out what the really big questions are.

Los proverbios morales son asombrosamente útiles en los casos en que, por mucho que lo intentemos, no se nos ocurre nada para justificarnos.

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.

She looked at Farrell because there was nothing else to look at.

Would extraordinarily advanced alien beings really traverse this unimaginable gulf just to blast patterns in our cornfields, mutilate our cows, and probe our anuses? Surely they'd have better things to do.

So much of life isn't about having the right answer; it's about knowing the right question.

For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Thinking's all right if you have the time for it.

Emma's lips drew together into a thoughtful

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I always think about the past, it's so large and bright.

A thousand questions hit my eyes from the inside.

This November there seems to be nothing to say.

stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.

He sat there for a moment and then said, "Well … I