Contemplation Quotes

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!