Quotes About Stillness

I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness that characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm.

The air was still and tasted flat, like water that had been boiled more than once.

So what do you need me to do?' 'For now, absolutely nothing.' 'I think I can manage that. For centuries we Woosters have done absolutely nothing under much more trying conditions.

In a critical sense, doing nothing can mean doing something. Inaction can be action and embracing this paradox can save your life.

Din cas? se ivi un tân?r, statuie din cel mai preÅ£ios lut omenesc, gingaÅŸ, drept, cu capul neclintit, cu ochii pironiÅ£i în orbite ÅŸi încremeniÅ£i, ca niÅŸte lentile expuse într-o vitrin?. Chipul îi p?rea de fildeÅŸ, conturându-se cu fineÅ£e; dar, cu toate c? tenul îi era suav ca de fecioar?, era b?rb?tesc în mare m?sur? […]

Today was slow, so far. The thumb sucker had been in first thing,

martes, una de esas tardes de verano en que la Tierra parece haberse detenido. El teléfono, sobre la mesa de mi despacho, tenía

Silence is golden

Which would you prefer? To be perpetually standing still or perpetually running?

kein Rausch mehr, nur noch Rauschen.

Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

How do we wait? The Bible says very clearly that we are to be still.

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

I don't relax very well, and I find it hard to sit still.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Getting a bunch of horses to just stand there all day and do nothing is much harder than getting them to run around.

Rien n'est plus troublant que les mouvements incessants de ce qui semble immobile. p214 (Minuit)

Las palabras permanecían en silencio.

Without desire there is no life. Everything will stand still. Become emptiness. In fact sir, be dead.

The Hanged Man stopped gesturing and struck a pose: man listening.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made

Aber wie dem, der in einer schnellen Kreisbewegung drehend geworden, auch da noch, wenn er schon wieder still sitzt, die äussern Gegenstände mit ihm herum zu gehen scheinen: so wird auch das Herz, das zu heftig erschüttert worden, nicht auf einmal wieder ruhig.

Hier ruht er, wenn der Wind nicht weht!