Contemplation Quote by Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Many of those late nights, when he'd paced his apartment, his mind roaming the world he'd painstakingly created and could finally inhabit - moving…

— Adelle Waldman

He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of…

— Christopher Paolini

“If he looked back on what his life had been lately, he had perhaps managed two or three days when he had woken up,…

— Paulo Coelho

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

— Steven Millhauser

“Though nothing much had happened, he felt that he had seen and experienced enough that day - thus securing his tomorrow. For today he…

— Peter Handke

“Day by day, the constant solitude drove him deeper inside himself, with only his thoughts for companions. Soon he might lose the capacity for…

— Sondra Allan Carr

“But he did not think....thoughts formed in him and dissolved without control, almost like a reverie. And since he had got through life in…

— Victor Serge

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had…

— Paul Bowles

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of…

— Anonymous