Quotes about Contemplation
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
- Jack Kerouac
The silence was an intense roar.
- Jack Kerouac
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
- Jack Kerouac
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
- Jack Kerouac
After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...
- Jack Kerouac
Let us sleep by rivers and purify our ears.
- Jack Kerouac
I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys talking to farmers and their children.
- Jack Kerouac
And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery.
- Jack Kerouac
Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.
- Jack Kerouac
Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.
- Jack Kerouac
Sometimes I'd yell questions at the rocks and trees, and across gorges, or yodel - What is the meaning of the void? The answer was perfect silence, so I knew.
- Jack Kerouac