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Quotes About Tranquility

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
~ William Shakespeare
Marry, peace it bodes, and love, and quiet life, and, to be short, what not that's sweet and happy.
~ William Shakespeare
We rest your hermits.
~ William Shakespeare
For me the real healers were seclusion and time.
~ William Styron
then found a bench in a
~ William W. Johnstone
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
~ William Wordsworth
Rest and be thankful.
~ William Wordsworth
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
~ William Wordsworth
When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude
~ William Wordsworth
Be mild, and cleave to gentle things, thy glory and thy happiness be there.
~ William Wordsworth
Ross took a deep breath of the air, which was heavy with the smell of sea. He fancied he could hear the waves breaking.
~ Winston Graham
Ross pensò: se solo potessimo fermare la vita per un po', la fermerei qui. Non al mio ritorno a casa, non al momento di lasciare Trenwith, ma qui, qui, mentre ci avviciniamo alla sommità della collina, oltre Sawle, il crepuscolo che accarezza i confini della terra e Demelza che cammina canticchiando al mio fianco.
~ Winston Graham
exploited to the full my happy gift of falling almost immediately into deep sleep.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The silence following great words of Peace.62
~ Winston S. Churchill
in painted quiet and concentration
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
En el tercer planeta del sol la conciencia limpia y tranquila es síntoma primordial de animalidad.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
The Empress of Blandings was a pig who took things as they came. Her motto, like Horace's, was nil admirari.
~ Unknown
Our arses should be signs of peace!
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
After I'm dead, I suspect very little will get on my nerves, even that annoying noise the neighbors make with their leaf blower.
~ Woody Allen
To count a few gulls makes the journey happy. In the reedy bend, under the willow bank, My wife and children smile with me. The moment I fall asleep, wind and waves are quiet; No glory, no disgrace, and not a single worry.
~ Wu Cheng-en
amor es lo más parecido a las mentiras. Justifica u opaca a la razón, por derecho o torcido que parezca, no requiere de justificaciones, se reproduce a la menor provocación y exige todo el crédito del mundo. Además de que nadie o casi nadie puede vivir tranquilo en su total ausencia.
~ Xavier Velasco
There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
~ Yann Martel
For the first time I noticed—as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next—that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
~ Yann Martel
TO A FRIEND IN SEARCH OF RURAL SECLUSION When all else fails, Try Wales.
~ Unknown