Quotes About Stillness

She stood silent among the quiet sounds of the night, and certainty came to her.

When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.

In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Sitting still as a way of falling in love with the world and everything in it;

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still.

I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity. The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

Writers, of course, are obliged by our professions to spend much of our time going nowhere. Our creations come not when we're out in the world, gathering impressions, but when we're sitting still, turning those impressions into sentences. Our job, you could say, is to turn, through stillness, a life of movement into art. Sitting still is our workplace, sometimes our battlefield.

not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it's often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.

She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.

fixing our thoughts on Jesus requires time, for true reflection cannot happen with a glance. No one can see the beauty of the country as he hurries through it on the interstate. It is only when we sit still and gaze that the landscape fills our souls.

The air became dry and still, like the gap in a dead man's mouth.

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

Even motionless, she was decisive.

The hospital was drowned in the bottomless silence that fills

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace.

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.

Sure, I can turn on the TV or music, but even then I can't turn off the quiet, the emptiness.

The Fates are master sharpshooters, and the easy target is the one who's standing still.

Don't use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.

I'd come to appreciate the sounds of silence. I'd grown accustomed to the stillness of Ponder, where one could hear the snow being blown off the tree limbs by the wind, the distant cry of a caribou, and the crackle of the Northern Lights.

The silence in the apartment is loud.

Sanatta kazanan bizler doÄŸada her zaman maÄŸlubuz.

I pushed through the door into Kelly's. Inside they sat with their fat hands around their beers while the jukebox sang softly to itself. You'd think they'd found out how, by sitting still and holding their necks just so, to look down into lost worlds.

They'd been here twenty seconds, and already nothing was happening.