Quotes About Stillness

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment.

But neither of us closed our eyes against the immeasurable dark of that silent night.

The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.

And then, our universe will be in a state of absolute equilibrium. All life and thought will cease and, with them, time itself.

It's funny: when you're tranquil,

I didn't sob, I didn't wail, I didn't whimper... because those are all things that dead people cannot do.

We live very busy lives. But everyone has a spare minute.

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt.

I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

Man is ill because he is never still.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

A dead man cannot bite.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

There was silence around the big table in the Banana.

for now, none of the lights are on and that's all there is, black steel and slate sky.

The wall is home base. The wall won't move. If I stand at the wall, I won't be expected to move. This is what it means to be a wallflower. Now I understand.

Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip.

and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.