Don DeLillo Quotes

See and keep silent.

I observe and remain silent.

The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching as one watches birds flying in the sky. Just Lying down on the ground and watching, nothing to do, indifferent. Not your concern really, where they are going; they are going on their own.

People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night.

Well, I sing by night, wander by day. I'm on the road and it looks like I'm here to stay.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

Can you look at a flower without thinking?

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

I don't know - I feel like someone would think of me, or anyone in my family, as unappreciative of a moment, and I've really learned to appreciate a moment. I take things in a lot. I'm kind of weird like that. I like to go outside at night by myself and look at the sky and just appreciate it. I'm not that big of a weirdo, but - occasionally.

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.

Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.

Knowing how to look is a way of inventing.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don't accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don't jump to conclusions without thinking.

I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.