Contemplating Quotes

496 quotes by 410 authors

Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to… — Rumi
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot,… — Immanuel Kant
In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, donâ€™t be far from me, and also donâ€™t come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on… — Amin Maalouf
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction. — Alan Lightman
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
Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the… — Daniel Dennett
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
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not… — Elie Wiesel
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
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon… — John Piper

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