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Quotes About Tranquil

The best of men That e'er wore earth about Him was a Sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; The first true gentleman that ever breathed.
~ Thomas Dekker
I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.
~ Rose Namajunas
the evening was beautifully balmy. "I
~ Nora Roberts
Of course it's the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they're happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.
~ Clive Barker
It had been a cool dawn. Wisps of white moisture hovered over the ground.
~ Colson Whitehead
She had never seen him rush or hurry. The man moved with exquisite calm, like a leaf drifting on the surface of a pond, making its own way on gentle currents.
~ Colson Whitehead
Night reigned: all through the world tied bodies were harvesting tranquil slumber.
~ Virgil
The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.' That will be useful.
~ Virginia Woolf
This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself.
~ Virginia Woolf
The voyage was uneventful.
~ W.E. Bowman
After the tranquil respite, Santiago set sail and proceeded south in search of the strait. On May 22, the wind picked
~ Laurence Bergreen
The river this November afternoon Rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud: A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.
~ Cecil Day-Lewis
These tall and handsome ships, swaying imperceptibly on tranquil waters, these sturdy ships, with their inactive, nostalgic appearance, dont they say to us in a speechless tongue: When do we cast off for happiness?
~ Charles Baudelaire
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
~ Charles Dickens
Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!
~ Charles Dickens
and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
~ Charles Dickens
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
~ Charles Dickens
How softly runs the afternoon Beneath the billowy clouds of June!
~ Charles Hanson Towne
Northern Pennines.
~ James Herriot
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
~ James Joyce
She said he just looked as if he was asleep, he looked that peaceful and resigned. No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.
~ James Joyce
Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness. The soul is in a manner all that is: the soul is the form of forms. Tranquillity sudden, vast, candescent: form of forms.
~ James Joyce
unwound on a Sunday. "Would you like some
~ James Patterson
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
~ George Bernard Shaw