Quotes About Tranquility

I love her with a love as still As a broad river's peaceful might, Which by high tower and lowly mill, Goes wandering at its own will, And yet does ever flow aright.

I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.

Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.

Highest good is like water. Because water excels in benefiting the myriad creatures without contending with them and settles where none would like to be, it comes closest to the way.

Peace is the state where love abides and seeks to share itself.

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

I'm happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

Werdmer ter

One of the many reasons why gardens are increasingly precious to us in this day and age is that they help us to escape from the tyranny of speed. Our skies are streaked with jets, our roads have turned to race-tracks, and in the cities the crowds rush to and fro as though the devil were at their heels. But as soon as we open the garden gate, Time seems almost to stand still, slowing down to the gentle ticking of the Clock of the Universe.

You have no engagements, commitments, obligations, or duties; no special ambitions and only the smallest, least complicated of wants; you exist in a tranquil tedium, serenely beyond the reach of exasperation, "far removed from the seats of strife," as the early explorer and botanist William Bartram put it. All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge.

All that is required of you is a willingness to trudge. There is no point in hurrying because you are not actually going anywhere. However far or long you trod you are always in the same place - in the woods. It's where you were yesterday, where you will be tomorrow.

Instead, we were given the period of unusual tranquillity known as the Holocene, the time in which we live now.

Every tree wore a thick cloak of white, every stump and boulder a jaunty snowy cap, and there was that perfect, immense stillness that you get nowhere else but in a big woods after a heavy snowfall.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.

I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

I have often said that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

If our state were really happy, we should not need to take our minds off it in order to make ourselves happy.

We must sit by these rivers, not under or in them, but above, not standing upright, but sitting down, so that we remain humble by sitting, and safe by remaining above.

Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.