Quotes About Stillness

If you listen closely, silence can be deafening.

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence.

Love can be simply the absence of tension.

I have learned that only the dead have a steady state of mind.

Peace above all, even above love.

It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...

Self-Control must needs be made up of Patience, the ability to keep Still when you feel like Talking right out, and the iron holding down of your own Self for the sake of the Bigger Hours. No man ever won anything without first winning Himself. You are a strong Human bundle of Passion, Red Pepper — and Power. Your Mixing of these things in wise proportion and mastering them will mold you into a sure Success. Try, for — You can Be what you Will, if you Will to Be.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

She did not move. And about her the entire house, the street, seemed to encourage her, seemed to consider this motionlessness natural.

I join a heart of snow to the whiteness of swans; I hate movement for it displaces lines, And never do I weep and never do I laugh.

Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.

we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

permanent living peace is permanent living death.

it's necessary for me sometimes just to be alone and quiet and doing nothing. - my telephone

my typewriter is tombstone still. and I am reduced to bird watching.

He just stares. He's so quiet. That's the way we want him. Still water runs deep. Not with this one. The only thing that runs deep with him are the holes in his ears.

The best way to think is not at all

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel

there are some people who must always go somewhere. 'let's go to a movie!' 'let's go boating!' 'let's get laid!' 'screw all that stuff,' I always say, 'just let me sit here.

Ele [Henry} é tão quietinho... - As águas paradas são as que têm maior profundidade