Contemplation Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes…

— Jules Verne

“Beings we can hardly imagine or understand.”

— Kat Beyer

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

— Marcel Proust

If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong;…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns…

— Henry David Thoreau

The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

— Henry David Thoreau

The boatmen appeared to lead an easy and contented life, and we thought that we should prefer their employment ourselves to many professions which…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be…

— Richard Russo