Quotes About Stillness

a respiração contínua do mundo é aquilo que ouvimos e chamamos de silêncio.

Houve um momento grande, parado, sem nada dentro. Dilatou os olhos, esperou. Nada veio. Branco. Mas de repente num estremecimento deram corda no dia e tudo recomeçou a funcionar, a máquina trotando, o cigarro do pai fumegando, o silêncio, as folhinhas, os frangos pelados, a claridade, as coisas revivendo cheias de pressa como uma chaleira a ferver.

Os corpos se distinguem uns dos outros em relação ao movimento e ao repouso, à velocidade e à lentidão e não em relação à substância".

No huir, pero ir. Eso, tan dulce: no huir, ir... O gritar alto, alto y recto e infinito, con los ojos cerrados, tranquilos. Andar hasta encontrar las lucecitas rojas. Tan trémulas como en un comienzo o en un fin. También ella estaba muriendo, ¿o naciendo? No, no ir, quedarse rendida en el instante como la mirada absorta se prende en el vacío quiete, fija en el aire.

The head's ache evaporates into a state of numbness, a cave of sighs. Over the years you lose the melodrama of seeing yourself as a patient. The sighing ceases; the headaches remain. You hold your head in your hands. You sit still.

and there I was, caught in the crossfire, aware of how loud a house could be in the absence of sound.

She knew that a minute before sunrise, when the sky began to lighten, showing dark, early clouds, there was often a pause when nothing moved, not even time, and she was always happy to be up and in that moment; sometimes she tried to stand perfectly still, to not move with time not moving, and it seemed that if she were not careful she might slip out of this world and into another…She hoped that when her time came, it would be close to morning, and she could wait for the still moment.

I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

T?cerea nu-i o pauz? în vorbire, ci o treab? în sine.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

I wanted this world to still. I wanted to fix it and be fixed within it. But everything was on the move, the clouds, the wind...

Här stod tiden stilla. Det är med förändringarna man mäter tidens gång, jag har ingenting att mäta den med.

A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."

He's quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

His wax-white skin was cool to the touch when she brushed his neck to find the knot of cloth. She'd never been this close to a vampire,never realized what it would be like to be so near to someone who didn't breathe, who could be as still as any statue. His chest neither rose not fell. Her hands shook.

No fire at all.

One of the hobs who used to work here, Nell Uther, would find me and guide me back to my room, telling me that if I couldn't sleep, then I ought to just close my eyes and lie still. That at least my body could rest, even if my mind wouldn't.

Mom didn't move. Mom and Dad were dead. They were never going to move again.

Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I'd discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.

A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.