Quotes About Stillness

Kept for that moment when I'm certain nothing's left.

There is something eerie about the odd stillness that settles on the living room then . . . It is as if this scene has been impossibly fixed and will never change again.

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

He was hanging from one of the rafters in a laundry up near Frau Diller's. Another human pendulum. Another clock, stopped.

There was also an acknowledgment that there was great beauty in what she was currently witnessing, and she chose not to disturb it.

El silencio siempre era la mayor de las tentaciones.

El silencio no era quietud o calma, y desde luego no era paz.

breathing then, for

El libro se abrió... Una ráfaga de viento amplificada por la quietud de la noche.

He wondered if silence gathered in some places: a wood in deep winter; a dock where a boat moored in still water; an abandoned farmhouse. The world at large was against silence, which made it all the more restful and the more necessary when one came upon it.

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.

Aprendi a ficar quieta e a parar de fazer coisas, de ouvir e até de pensar. Aprendi a ser. Aprendi que quase qualquer lugar pode ser um desses lugares especiais, caso eu o permita. Talvez tenha aprendido a encontrar esse lugar dentro de mim.

In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, grey earth—above all, there is absolute silence. Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence—complete and heart-subduing silence.

In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, grey earth—above all, there is absolute silence. Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing

And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it.

I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater as a blanket of snow.

Ne?u re?i da su da su mi se emocije staložile do sljede?eg jutra kad se vlak zaustavio na peronu kolodvora u Kyotu. Napokon kad baciš kamen u ribnjak, voda još dugo treperi i nakon što je kamen potonuo na dno.

Die in silence.

The nights are clear but suffused with sloth and sullen expectation.

Lie still, it said. If you do not rise, do not move, nothing can hurt you. Simply do nothing, say nothing, be nowhere.

There was silence for a moment.