Quotes About Stillness

There was the feeling in him then that his body had become the manifestation of some power he could no longer control. He had become a non-being, a stillness which moved itself. At the core of the non-being, there he existed, allowing himself to be led through the stress of his city, following a track so familiar in his visions that it froze his heart with grief.

Ocorreu-lhe que a misericórdia era a capacidade de parar, mesmo que apenas por um instante. Não havia misericórdia onde não era possível parar.

Gördükleri kar??s?nda donup kalmak, hiç k?m?ldamamak isterdi; ama bu da birtak?m sonuçlar doÄŸuracak bir eylemdi.

The waiting moment was packed with time, with rustling needle-stick movements.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

Peaceful moon. I consist only of bones.

The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past.

Odandan ç?kman gerekmez, masanda oturmaya devam et ve dinle.. Dinleme bile, sadece bekle..bekleme bile, gerçekten sakin ve yaln?z ol. Dünya özgürce sunacakt?r kendini sana..maskesinden s?yr?lmak için baÅŸka seçeneÄŸi yok, huÅŸu içinde yuvarlanacakt?r ayaklar?n?n dibine..

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

It is not necessary for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen; just wait. Don't even wait; be utterly still and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it cannot do otherwise; it will writhe before you in ecstasy.

If you're under suspicion it's better to be moving than still, as if you're still you can be in the pan of the scales without knowing it and be weighed along with your sins.

For a suspect, movement is better than staying still, for someone who is still can always, without realizing it, be in the scales and be weighed with his sins.

No es necesario que salgas de casa. Quédate en tu mesa y escucha. Ni siquiera escuches, espera solamente. Ni siquiera esperes, quédate solo y en silencio. El mundo llegará a ti para hacerse desenmascarar; no puede dejar de hacerlo, se prosternará extático a tus pies.

Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

The hardest thing to do is something that is close to nothing.

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Psalm 46:10, "Be still and know that I am God" or "The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him." (Habakkuk 2:20)

He] would have cried out in horror if the silence had not pressed like a weight that held him paralyzed.

Never miss an opportunity to do nothing

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

You have to take a little time to appreciate being alive and breathing instead of wondering what you have to do next all the time. You have to stop and do nothing for a little while every day.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.