Quotes About Stillness

Forks ceased their perpendicular traveling.

perfectly quiet

Serenity is the flavor of meditation...

Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent

Like a lake unruffled by any breeze, the concentrated mind is a faithful reflector that mirrors whatever is placed before it exactly as it is.

There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.

Bull stares into the hazy distance as though the right words are out there somewhere and all he has to do is claim them as his own. Sometimes it gets so quiet in Gungee you can hear conversations from a hundred years ago breathing on a gust of wind.

There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Galinda, who didn't know much about Poetry, thought perhaps this was the accepted way of appreciating it. She grumbled a little to Shenshen, who sat in a straightback chair to one side, looking dropsical. Wax from the taper was about to drip onto Sheenshen's silk-shouldered white gown with the lemon-chiffon swags, and ruin it, most likely, but Galinda decided Shenshen's family could afford to replace a gown. She kept still.

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure / Les jours s'en vont je demeure.

And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

privea spre cer cu ochi plini de blesteme; dar nici m?car o frunz? nu se clinti din aceast? pricin?.

La pluie ne tombait plus ; le jour commençait à venir, et, sur les branches des pommiers sans feuilles, des oiseaux se tenaient immobiles, hérissant leurs petites plumes au vent froid du matin.

Olyan mélységes és olyan szomorú azoknak a szobáknak a csöndje, ahol egyedül él az ember. Nemcsak a testet, a lelket is körülfogja ez a csönd; amikor egy bútor megreccsen, szíve mélyéig megremeg az ember, mert semmi zajra nem volt elkészülve a komor lakásban.

Le vrai besoin qu'il avait éprouvé tout ce temps-là était de goûter un moment de silence qu'il ne pouvait trouver à l'endroit où son esprit ordinaire le gardait occupé à chercher.

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. There was nothing within hearing, and nothing in sight save a vast reach of black slime; yet the very completeness of the stillness and the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with a nauseating fear.

yet the very completeness of the stillness and the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with a nauseating fear.

There are forces close here that could kill a herd of elephants in a second as easily as you or I could squash a fly. Our only chance is to keep perfectly still. Our insignificance perhaps may save us.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Tisina je, a tisina je glasan zvuk.

Who will hold [the heart], and fix it so that it may stand still for a little while and catch for a moment the splendor of eternity which stands still forever, and compare this with temporal moments that never stand still, and see that it is incomparable . . . but that all this while in the eternal, nothing passes but the whole is present.31