Contemplation Quotes

"The more you know, the sadder you get." "Holiness, as I then wrote down some of my contemplations on it, appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature." "Time! The present! In these, I am almost inclined to believe. I am a skeptical mystic." "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead I lift my lids and all is born again " "I am he that walks with the tender and growing night" "The less you think, the more you believe." "It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something" "To live doesn't mean you're alive" "The source of all the material comes from nothingness, silence, and emptiness." "Dreamers often lie, they lie in bed awake, and then they dream about a better world" "To love is to think." "Human kind cannot bear very much reality" "There is a thin thread that runs through all the complex" "And the days are not full enough and the nights are not full enough and life slips by like a field mouse." "At bottom we discover that we do not have anything" "We have lingered in the chambers of the sea" "Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage" "Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear" "What we’re seeing here is our own reflection" "I am alone here in my own mind."