Quotes about Contemplation
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
- Laurence Sterne
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
- Charles Dickens
Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!
- Charles Dickens
I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.
- Charles Dickens
I am saying nothing.
- Charles Dickens
I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.
- Charles Dickens
I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.
- Charles Dickens
He stepped aside to the ledge where the vine leaves yet lay strewn about, collected two or three, and stood wiping his hands upon them, with his back to the light.
- Charles Dickens
?leride ne yapaca??n? hiç dü?ündün mü?" "Hay?r. ?lerisiyle ilgili herhangi bir ?ey dü?ünmekten korkuyorum çünkü.
- Charles Dickens
He did nothing, but he looked on as few other men could have done.
- Charles Dickens
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson
Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.
- Gregory of Nyssa