Quotes About Stillness

He works at the kennel with Nana, Ben piped up. And I think him and Mom are dating. At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

Draden didn't move, staying as still as any predator with his gaze fixed on his prey. No muscle moved.

Steele could be so completely still, it felt like he could disappear. His energy would get so low that you could forget he was in your space. He never missed anything when he was like that. He took in the smallest detail.

when you don't know what to do, stand still.

His thoughtful Grace. He liked that trait in her. Te stillness in her. She brought a sense of peace to her surroundings.

Oh, Fausto, ahora tienes apenas una hora de vida, y serás maldecido para la eternidad. ¡Quedaos quietas, esferas celestiales siempre en movimiento, que el tiempo pare y no llegue nunca la medianoche!

Sometimes, a man must muster all of his courage simply to sit still. How much humanity has been spoiled for the confusion of movement with progress, my friend? How much?

Even the donkeys were quiet.

All was still and quiet. It seemed as if a magician had placed an enchantment upon the earth and that everything in the world was bound in an eternal sleep and would remain frozen and unchanging forevermore underneath the watchful gaze of the twinkling stars.

You have grown still, and looking into your mind is like peering into a lake so deep, I cannot see the bottom. What is in you, little one? Is it rage? Is it happiness? Or have you no emotions to give? What is in me is acceptance

So don't think. Be a sleeper devoid of dreams.

Suddenly, I can't move. I can't speak. I am set in stone, but it's a glorious chiseled sort of stone.

Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

a complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.

as everything moved—earth, solar system, nebulae and black holes, all the children of the great cosmic expansion—one single point stood still: a pivot, bolt, or hook around which the universe could move.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Out of every kind of nervousness I didn't move.

The Discipline of Solitude invites us to empty our lives and minds of constant noise and clutter so that we may be filled with the still small voice of God and that from hearing God's voice we can speak to a hurting world.

Noise does not waken a drunkard; silence wakens him.

il arriva à cette phase de calme où l'on peut écouter.

I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is, there's a stillness to it, a peace that lures you in. In Paris, with a glass of wine in your hand, you can just be.

He'd never thought much about silence, but now he knew its every shape and contour. It was a cheap glass jar that trapped old voices and kept them fresh.

Ženk neskub?damas per triukšm? ir skubi? ir nepamiršk, koki? ramyb? teikia tyla.

Ich sah die beiden Heringe an, die beiden Heringe sahen mich an, wir schwiegen alle drei.