Quotes About Tranquility

He pulled her close. "Your being with me makes it stop. It's like the Ming bowls - when I touch them and feel them, everything stops. You are the same. That is why I brought you here, to keep you with me, where you can please make...everything...stop.

water laughing softly down a black stone wall.

Lying perfectly still, they would gaze at each other in thick exhaustion and nothing would seem to divide them: they could float inside each other freely as fish drifting through windows of underwater castles.

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

The truth was, she liked the sparse look of bare countertops and shelves; the empty white walls felt like a clean slate.

For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am weightless and free. Nothing and no one to fear, not even myself.

A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.

There's a lot of merit in silence.

Le soleil mentait, quand il se couchait si doux et si calme, au milieu de la grande sérénité du soir.

Life in the silent, secluded little mansion in Passy was as smooth and regular as the gentle ticking of its antiquated clocks. (89)

se reposant de tout un après-midi de flânerie.

In all of England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven

But, yet, even this tranquility Brings bitter, restless thoughts to me.

I listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

In the chamber of death... I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadow less hereafter-the Eternity they have entered-where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fullness... One might doubt in seasons of cold reflection; but not then in the presence of her corpse. It asserted its own tranquility, which seemed a pledge of equal quiet to its former inhabitant.

Me pregunte, asombrado, como habia quien pudiera atribuir un descanso atormentaddo a los que duermen en la serenidad de aquella tierra tan tranquila

Deixe-me a sós, que preciso pensar; enquanto penso, não sofro...

This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. 

Bana göre ise en büyük mutluluk, bat? rüzgar? eserken, gökte de pamuk gibi beyaz bulutlar uçuÅŸurken, h???r h???r eden yemyeÅŸil bir aÄŸaçta sallanmakt?r.

Güzel havalarda eline bir kitap al?r, yeÅŸilliklerle örtülü bir yeri kendine okuma yeri yapars?n...

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious

Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?

The Ocean's Heart too Smooth - too Blue - To break for you.

To wander now is my abode; To rest,—to rest would be A privilege of hurricane To memory and me.