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Quotes About Tranquility

To restore silence is the role of objects.
~ Samuel Beckett
As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
~ Samuel Johnson
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress
~ Samuel Johnson
I do hate to be unquiet at home.
~ Samuel Pepys
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Will had loved the snow, the cleanness of it, the quiet, the sense of peace it brought, had loved it even though winter meant hard chores.
~ Sandra Dallas
the solace of minutia
~ Sandra Gulland
Pasha stalk beside, my monster fabulous and tame, and be like fleeing every worry to a secret hush.
~ Sandra Newman
Walking out to hunt at sunrise be like stepping straight from your own dreams into birdsong and dew. Trees seem higher. Gray shy dawnlight fill their rushing crowns from underneath. Pasha stalk beside, my monster fabulous and tame, and be like fleeing every worry to a secret hush.
~ Sandra Newman
edge of town all graveyard and the sound of waves
~ Sant?ka Taneda
No tira los bancos o (las sillas) estrepitosa o bruscamente, no toca ruidosamente las puertas; siempre se deleita en el silencio. La garza, el gato y el ladrón actúan queda y sigilosamente, y logran lo que desean. El asceta debe conducirse siempre de forma similar.
~ Santideva
but I am not someone who likes to wound rather I have a quiet mind
~ Sappho
white sand. Lily white. Lily. After a good while she realized
~ Sara Donati
we can stroll
~ Sara Shepard
Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.
~ Sara Sheridan
When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now
~ Sara Teasdale
I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold-hearted Than you are now.
~ Sara Teasdale
Oh, I could let the world go by, Its loud new wonders and its wars, BUt how will I give up the sky When winter dusk is set with stars? And I could let the cities go, Their changing customs and their creeds,– But oh, the summer rains that blow In silver on the jewel-weeds!
~ Sara Teasdale
There is a time to be still in the pose.
~ Dharma Mittra
I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.
~ Nicole Kidman
The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can't spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting.
~ Guy Ritchie
Noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
~ Herbert Spencer
For after the Battle comes quiet.
~ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine