Quotes About Stillness

There was a strangeness in the house. Like settling stillness. Weighted dust.

The void and the unspeakable loneliness, the stillness and the silence and the darkness that awaited beneath the sod: no, no movement; no breathing; nothing. Too much … too much.

He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless under a misty streetlamp's glow, staring up at a window of the house like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?

The green mantle of the standing pool.

And sleep in dull cold marble.

He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.

Not a mouse stirring.

In the dead vast and middle of the night.

They say that history is going on somewhere. They say it won't stop. I have held One picture still for a long time and waited.

I've watched you now a full half-hour; Self-poised upon that yellow flower And, little Butterfly! Indeed I know not if you sleep or feed. How motionless! - not frozen seas More motionless! and then What joy awaits you, when the breeze Hath found you out among the trees, And calls you forth again!

I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

But hushed be every thought that springsFrom out the bitterness of things.

I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.

Doing nothing often leads to the very best kind of something.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Un día me dijeron que la felicidad consiste en no querer moverse de donde uno esta. Si eso es verdad, aquél fue el día más feliz de mi vida.

Each leaf had shuddered in the wind on any given yesterday. Each cloud drifting overhead had blown across those skies the year before. Nothing had changed, and nothing could change. The world felt frozen in front of me, like a family photo trapped in a frame. This landscape had imprisoned me since I was born.

The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...

And yet, the room was filled by a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence, untouched by fallen hair or mold, silence that the Professor left behind as he wandered through the numbers, silence like a clear lake hidden in the depths of the forest.