Contemplation quotes

Discover the depth of self-reflection and inner peace with our collection of thought-provoking quotes on Contemplation.

Mornings are for coffee and contemplation.

- Jim Hopper

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

- James Monroe

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

- Lionel Trilling

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

- Edgar Allan Poe

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

- Arthur Phillip

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

- Sarah McLachlan

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

- Alexander Herzen

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

- John Dos Passos

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

- Dodie Smith

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

- Arthur Conan Doyle