Quotes About Stillness

Our place in the universe, the universe itself, it all changes faster and faster by the second. Every one of us standing on this planet, we're all moving forwards and we're never ever coming back. The truth is, stillness is an idea, a dream. It's the thought of friendly, welcoming lights still shining in all the places we've been forced to abandon.

Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

Time stood still, ignored the event.

The dawn was beginning to bloom around him, and already the land was held in that surreal stillness that heralds the transition between night and day.

Bayard was a blade of radiant light, the power of the sun. Yet he was serene, controlled. He listened to Khaster's outpourings in the stillness, perhaps fascinated.

The air was hushed and still as if the fog were an enchantment beneath whose spell the whole world slept.

I'm staring at a creature, exquisite in its creation, who will soon be adrift in a world completely alien. I want to enjoy these moments of stillness before that happens. Look upon it as a few scant hours of bliss before things get unpleasant and challenging for you.

At his appearance, the environment around him seemed to slow to utter stillness, and become bleached of colour.

At that moment, everything went utterly still, but for light shooting from jewelled throat to jewelled throat, from candelabra to chandelier.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the un-manifested life that animates your physical form.

All in all, the dead are a whole lot less trouble than the living

Now the light is rich and full and constant, bathing the fields, the garden, the gathering of friends. Here is a single afternoon in the lives that lie ahead. Two of these people are lovers, and one is expecting a child. Two of these people love one another, and are celibate. The air is so still, so still. These moments are perfect. No one speaks.

He was standing very still with his arms folded, staring with poached egg eyes.

Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether.

We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.

Calm can solve all issues.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

In the stillness, our eyes do all the silent talking. Our chests move with heavy breathing and desire pours out through our pores. It's unmistakable.

Worshiping someone requires complete passivity. To turn the principle of immobility into a rule.

Take a deep breath and pause for one minute without doing anything! There did you feel the magic?

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

My Favourite hobby is to sit still and convert oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. Love to Live.

They fill every waking minute with action, but they are empty.