Quotes About Stillness

I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait...

The world halted. There sounded a great gong made of sky. A gasp. Silence.

And so, you see, her absence stopped time.

She crouched down, then

She called it a 'still—Volcano—Life', and that volcano heaves, close to the surface, throughout her poetry and a thousand letters. Stillness, for her, was not a retreat from life but a form of control.

I descended into physical and moral immobility, and my body became a plant, a stone, mud, nothing at all…

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

And there, by the fire, held in the arms of his mother, in the room in which he learnt to crawl, to eat, to walk, to speak, Hamnet takes his last breath. He draws it in, he lets it out. Then there is silence, stillness. Nothing more.

Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord.

You have to be silent, but ready

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and listen for the playfulness of your heart.

I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.

Parce que ma bouche se tait, pensez-vous que mon coeur se repose?

I had forgotten I was alone; I sat there, waiting for nothing, oblivious to the time.

Be silent before God and let Him bless you.

Let us never be afraid to be still before God; we shall then carry that stillness into our work; and when we go to church on Sunday, or to the prayer-meeting on week-days, it will be with the one desire that nothing may stand betwixt us and God, and that we may never be so occupied with hearing and listening as to forget the presence of God.

Do be still now, and listen to your Father calling you. Ask for and count upon the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Holiness, to open your heart to understand this holy calling. And then speak out the answer you have to give to this call.

Does not all your anxious restlessness, and futile effort, prove that you have not let God do His work? God is drawing you to Himself. This is not your own wish, and the stirring of your own heart, but the everlasting Divine magnet is drawing you. These restless yearnings and thirstings, remember, are the work of God. Come and be still, and wait upon God. He will reveal Himself.

Oh! take time, to get very low before God.

There had been nothing but snow, and if you looked at it long enough, you would begin to hear a white noice - a kind of silence that takes hold of your soul with its cold hands and doesn't release it for a long time.

Night would settle in like slow blindness

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Lake Dekanawida