Top 100 Contemplate Quotes
#1. If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Abraham Lincoln
#2. For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.
Douglas Brinkley
#3. The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.
Nellie L. McClung
#4. Sure Man was born to meditate on things, And to contemplate the eternal springs Of God and Nature, glory, bliss and pleasure: That life and love might be his eternal treasure.
Thomas Traherne
#5. It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.
Donald Judd
#6. If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
Plato
#7. In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide.
Ian Stevenson
#8. What a great joy is to contemplate the whole day in a silent place! And even a greater joy is to see those contemplated thoughts starting their journey in the neural pathways of the world mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.
Nancy Mairs
#10. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. Said
Mark Twain
#11. Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#12. In the pure mathematics we contemplate absolute truths which existed in the divine mind before the morning stars sang together, and which will continue to exist there when the last of their radiant host shall have fallen from heaven.
Edward Everett Hale
#13. ( ... ) it is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities; but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!
Comte De Lautreamont
#14. A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
Simone Weil
#16. Mr. Chairman, when I contemplate the evils of apartheid, my heart bleeds and I am sure the heart of every true blooded African bleeds.
Murtala Mohammed
#17. We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it
Les Back
#18. You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.
Gao Xingjian
#19. God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules everything, when we contemplate his immense knowledge and his knowing look which the secrets of the heart cannot evade.
John Cassian
#20. Two abysses, gentlemen of the jury, remember that Karamazov can contemplate two abysses, and both at the same time.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. So when introverts assume the observer role, as when they write novels, or contemplate unified field theory- or fall quiet at dinner parties- they're not demonstrating a failure or a lack of energy. They're simply doing what they're constitutionally suited for (237).
Susan Cain
#22. When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.
Karl Jaspers
#23. The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become.
Sherry Turkle
#24. Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.
Wayne Dyer
#25. Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.
Boethius
#26. Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.
Sebastian Faulks
#27. Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.
Marshall McLuhan
#28. The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
Bam Margera
#29. They ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly
Toni Morrison
#30. One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower?
Francine Prose
#31. Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.
John F. Kennedy
#32. When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
John Steinbeck
#33. It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.
Anais Nin
#35. Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played.
Maggie Stiefvater
#36. Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.
Carl Jung
#37. They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only ... now ... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.
Lionel Shriver
#38. As the twentieth century was about politics, which is to say survival, the twenty-first is about God, which is to say oblivion, a subject his country is profoundly unprepared to contemplate.
Steve Erickson
#39. At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.
T.C. Boyle
#40. I would rather be physically disabled obviously than mentally. I would rather be paraplegic than nuts. And it is a terrifying prospect and actually the longer we live the more likely it is that that's how we will go and that's a very painful thing to contemplate.
Ian McEwan
#41. If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude ...
A.E. Housman
#42. Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.
John Marshall
#43. Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
Jonathan Edwards
#44. It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G.K. Chesterton
#45. However fearful I am, when I contemplate the possibility that someone might finally realize I'm here, I can feel the wings of a bird called hope beginning to beat softly inside my chest.
Martin Pistorius
#46. When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.
Muso Soseki
#47. To recite the Rosary is nothing other than to contemplate the face of Christ with Mary.
Pope John Paul II
#48. I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
Roger Ebert
#49. In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
#50. Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.
John Chamberlain
#51. One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack, or that it's a bottle rack that has changed its destination ... It's not the visual question of the readymade that counts; it's the fact that it exists, even.
Marcel Duchamp
#52. When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.
Lisa J. Shultz
#53. When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.
Plato
#54. So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
Paulo Coelho
#55. I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.
Sylvester McCoy
#56. It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the 1,500 millions which inhabit the Earth alone, not to speak of other spheres.
Max Heindel
#57. Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.
Travis Bradberry
#58. One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.
Wayne Dyer
#59. it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing, but contemplate the rain
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#60. Loss of focus is what most worries Charlie and me when we contemplate investing in businesses that in general look outstanding. All too often, we've seen value stagnate in the presence of hubris or of boredom that caused the attention of managers to wander.
Warren Buffett
#62. At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances ...
William Braxton Irvine
#63. I pull her pillow over my face to breathe in her scent. It's torture, it's heaven, and for a moment I contemplate death by suffocation. Get a grip, Grey.
E.L. James
#64. Quietly contemplate the Lamb as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture is the emblem of joy. The joy of the saints in heaven is comprised in this: Jesus chose us, loved us, bought us, cleansed us, robed us, kept us, glorified us: we are here entirely through the Lord Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#65. I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?
Robert M. Gates
#66. It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
John Maynard Keynes
#67. Contemplate the choice between going after money or ideals. There is so much pressure to go for money, idealism gets little airplay. Do something that means something to you.
Shere Hite
#68. There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chase with Pamela Anderson.
Jasper Carrott
#69. Though Fin couldn't see it, she felt the closeness of land around her. From beyond the grey veil she could sense the oppressive weight of two great continents crowding down to the sea, each to kneel and contemplate the nearness of an ancient earthen brother.
A.S. Peterson
#70. The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves
Italo Calvino
#71. I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.
Ted Simon
#72. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.
Julia Cameron
#73. Holiness is found in how we treat others, not in how we contemplate the cosmos.
Terryl L. Givens
#74. I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
Don Mazankowski
#75. Twilight is an insistent and infinite invitation to the wise to contemplate in peace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil ...
Abraham Lincoln
#77. To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.
Virginia Woolf
#78. From a distance, everyone will be able to read text, enlarged and limited to the desired subject, projected on an individual screen. In this way, everyone from his armchair will be able to contemplate the whole of creation, in whole or in certain parts.
Paul Otlet
#79. The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
Horace
#80. In all things that I contemplate as I am consulting you, I find no secure place for my soul except in you. And in you, I pray that what is scattered in me may be brought together, so that no part of me may be apart from you.
Rubianne Wood
#81. A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.
Aldous Huxley
#82. I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.
Daniel S. Loeb
#83. In the East, they contemplate the forest; in the West, they count the trees.
Wayne Dyer
#84. There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
Marshall McLuhan
#85. From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.
Jay Smith
#86. Fiction is overrated, Fly. We've discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that's what counts.
Rawi Hage
#87. It is not uncommon for fighters' camps to be gloomy. In heavy training, fighters live in dimensions of boredom others do not begin to contemplate. Fighters are supposed to. The boredom creates an impatience with one's life, and a violence to improve it. Boredom creates a detestation for losing.
Norman Mailer
#88. So the first thing: become aware of death. Think about it, look at it, contemplate it. Do not be afraid, do not escape the fact. It is there and you cannot escape it! It has come into existence with you.
Rajneesh
#89. When we become curious about the dissatisfying defaults in our world, we begin to recognize that most of them have social origins: Rules and systems were created by people. And that awareness gives us the courage to contemplate how we can change them. Before
Adam M. Grant
#90. It may well be impossible for people who have lived and prospered under a given social system to imagine the point of view of those who feel it offers them nothing, and who can contemplate its destruction without any particular dismay.
Michel Houellebecq
#91. The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.
Isak Dinesen
#92. What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.
Dion Fortune
#93. E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back?
HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom!
~Ericsson; Hilary Craven
Agatha Christie
#94. We become what we contemplate.
Plato
#95. Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.
Ivan Turgenev
#96. Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
Jean Toomer
#97. I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes, he would not have given them so many invitations to study and contemplate Nature.
Robert Boyle
#99. Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
Marcus Aurelius
#100. Please let me love you."
"As if I could even contemplate living without you.
Sylvain Reynard
