Quotes About Stillness

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

We love the night and it's quiet.

The stillness of the waters is only drowned out by the sound of your heartbeat.

There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count's eyes gleamed, and he said:- 'Listen to them- the children of the night. What music they make!' Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added:- 'Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.

Permita que eu fique calmo, pois fora da tranquilidade só há insanidade.

When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

Over a razor-edged horizon the shimmering atmosphere was filled with pastel colors of sunrise. In a brief instant the clean stillness of Arrakis allowed warm light to flood over the wrinkled landscape Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a sudden deluge of brightness and rising heat. The white sun lurched above the horizon, without much precursor glow in the arid air.

That's the thing with the dead, they get to say nothing, forever.

Doing nothing when nothing is happening is no relaxation.

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Standing still at dusk Listen . . . in far distances The song of froglings!

I use the word to mean a natural state of peace and clarity.

Hay soledad en el hogar sin bulla, sin noticias, sin verde, sin niñez.

I was not always a Muslim, but once I was led into the absorption of prayer and the mysteries of the Qur'an, something troubled in me became still.

The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception—best supplied by the contemplation of art. Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquillity.

My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

The bird still didn't move. Mrs. Yun thought it had discerned her deepest, innermost ideas. Actually, she herself didn't know exactly what those ideas were.

A stillness like that of music resting—or sex, after: what they call sadness, though it is not sadness.

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Solo el silencio es grandioso; todo lo demás es debilidad. ALFRED DE VIGNY

Oh, God, can't we stop now? Finally? Please let us. It's so quiet here, now.

Let the stillness be, High Lord. Do not disturb it. If you are able, listen to its voice—but let it be.

Time didn't have meaning for him. Time had come to a standstill, the world stopped where it was, everything as still and immutable as the mountains and the sun in the sky.

What she heard was a deep and pervasive silence.