Quotes About Pause

My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

I just need to fucking breathe

We know a speaker has received adequate empathy when (1) we sense a release of tension, or (2) the flow of words comes to a halt.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Somehow we feel the earth should stop spinning and acknowledge our grief.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

my experience taught me that most emergencies are nothing of the kind, and you can figure that out if you take time to catch your breath.

These are the three things, it is commonly said, that mark a good preacher; first, that he take his place; secondly, that he open his mouth and say something; thirdly, that he know when to stop.

The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

I don't want to pull over right now, but I just downed an Arizona Ice Tea and I'm starting to look for the next closest rest stop.--On Settling down with a girl.

There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.

It spun faster and faster then everything was still. Absolutely still.

Todavía no era lo suficientemente analítico para darse cuenta de que hay ciertos amores, y ciertas fases del amor, que solo producen la felicidad perfecta en sus pausas e intervalos, igual que el agua se vuelve cristalina cuando el avance de uno deja de removerla.

Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

As I head back up the stairs, I hear the dryer make a sound of great mechanical distress, nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee , and I pause for only a moment before I decide that if I leave, I will no longer intimidate the machine, and it will then do its job very well without me.

Pausing between clouds the moon rests in the eyes of its beholders

You have the power to stop time. You do it by kissing. Or listening to music.

Add a comma to your day

The silence at the end of the song is as important as the song itself.

I sometimes want to stop time. I sometimes want, in a happy moment, for a church bell never to ring again. I want not to ever have to go to the market again. I want for the starlings to stop flying in the sky... But we are all at the mercy of time. We are all the strings, aren't we?

If there is a sunset, stop and look at it. Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

Opreste-te, am soptit. Dar timpul nu se opreste. Nici macar cand il rogi frumos.

I don't think -" I begin, but then I stop there. Strangely enough, this sounds like a full, declarative sentence, as if I'm standing in a bar shouting out one of my most obvious character flaws. I don't think!

Art stops human beings from working at their lives for a moment, and in that instant the entire truth of life is found.