Contemplate Quotes

341 Contemplate quotes by 293 unique authors

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity. — Voltaire
In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention… — Julia Cameron
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and… — Jane Austen
Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like… — Roger Waters
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But… — Bram Stoker
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or… — Michael Chabon
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters. — Friedrich Nietzsche
She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed… — Alice Sebold
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. — Marshall McLuhan
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping… — John Fowles
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And… — Anne Rice
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked… — Toni Morrison
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living. — Paulo Coelho
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the… — Graham Greene
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly tragic… — Mary MacLane
I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others. — Jean Plaidy
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. — Rachel Carson
What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,… — William Wordsworth
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows… — Franz Kafka
I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in… — David Nicholls
Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence. — Carl Jung
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing… — John Muir
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished… — John F. Kennedy
He scooped up Victoria practically before she hit the ground, well within the five-second rule. If she'd been a potato chip, he could have still… — Josh Lanyon

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