Quotes About Stillness

Bonhoeffer writes, "Real silence, real stillness, really holding one's tongue comes only as the sober consequence of spiritual stillness."6

The Magistrate hasn't said a word this whole time. He just stands there like a mantis, all insect patience and killer instincts.

Snow is falling outside and all is peaceful and still. In such moments it is possible to believe that the world could still be good.

I'll be right here. I'm waiting.

But the minutes don't stop. The prayer of going nowhere going nowhere.

I woke up in the morning and I didn't want anything, didn't do anything, couldn't do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.

the future stands still dear Mr Kappus, but we move in infinite space.

I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness.

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People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.

I put my arms around her and closed my eyes and put my cheek against the top of her head and stood for a long time without speaking while my soul melted into her. I knew we weren't the same person. I knew that it was good that we weren't. I knew separateness made love possible. But there were moments, like this one, of crystalline stillness, when it felt as if we really could merge like two oceans at the bottom of the world.

off with Utley." We were all quiet then, Susan and I

If she sat there without moving, they wouldn't punish her. If she sar there without moving, they'd know that she was sane, sane, sane.

Like a god going through his world, there stands One mountain for a moment in the dusk.

Holman felt the slowness coalesce into a kind of distant calm.

A person cannot run and also learn. He must stay in one place for a while.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir

um zu schreien, musst du atmen.

It's what I always remember about being up here," Babi said. "The silence. The peace of

Bilo bi pogrešno re?i da je Sohrab bio tih. Tišina je mir. Tišina je okretanje dugmeta za glasno?u života. Muk je pritiskivanje dugmeta za isklju?ivanje. Gašenje. Svega.

Quiet is peace. Tranquillity. Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life. Silence is pushing the OFF button. Shutting it down. All of it.

one star appears to stand almost overhead hour after hour, night after night, seemingly never moving even as the others circle perpetually around it. In recognition thereof, it is dubbed Polaris, the pole star ...

how lovely it was to sit quietly anchored in one place.

I can think of a lot of things to do, he said, and none of them involve standing up. - Al