Contemplation Quotes

533 Contemplation quotes by 355 unique authors

But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which,… — William Shakespeare
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the… — Edgar Allan Poe
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance back unwittingly at… — Vladimir Nabokov
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. — Henry David Thoreau
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. — Lin Yutang
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree — W S Merwin
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,… — Leo Tolstoy
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the… — Rachel Carson
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which… — William Shakespeare
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human… — Pope John Paul II
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church… — Thomas Merton
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling… — Carl Sagan
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To… — Susan Sontag
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris
Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is… — Alice Sebold
I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace.… — Umberto Eco
Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and… — Henri Nouwen
Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: —missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe.… — Mother Teresa
Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative… — Mother Teresa
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where… — Carl Sandburg
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher… — Thomas Merton
And so began something that had not quite begun and would not soon end, with many people in many places moving off in directions and… — Tom Clancy
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in… — Jeanette Winterson

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