Quotes About Still

That's what movies are, right? Thousands of still pictures taken months or years or decades before—streams of images burned onto celluloid that are reeled in front of a lamp and projected onto a screen, allowing us the illusion that they're alive. Flickers of light and dark. Brightness and shadow that won't stand still—like life itself.

Dare my guilty heart admit the horrible acknowledgement that I love you still?

It would turn out to be the last full day of her life, and for most of it she held her eyes still and open, neither sleeping nor waking, intermittently lucid and hallucinatory.

Can I step away from this digital maw? Will my voice still matter if no one can hear it?

cold, still, lookin a little uncomfortable in death as if they weren't quite used to it yet.

Violet stayed still as a statue. She hadn't been listening to the last speech of Count Olaf's, knowing it would be full of the usual self-congratulatory nonsense and despicable insults.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.

I have dreamt of a life you will never know; the life of a loving and caring companion. I simply thought you should know. I see that you are in trouble. I watch and listen to you. I want to help, but you won't let me. So be it. I love you still. Do what you will, I shall watch over you.

Lake Insanity lay broad and strange before them, a still reflecting pool for the frightened, confused moon.

I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.

It was one of those still evenings you get in the summer, when you can hear a snail clear its throat a mile away.

Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...

Krishna hinted that such a treasure was inside me—Weapons cannot harm it; fire cannot burn it; it is eternal, still and blissful—but the words, slippery as stones that have been left underwater a long time, slid from my fingers even as I tried to examine them. Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.

The light that filled my house was deep and livid, half magnolia, half rainwater. Things sat in it, dark and very still.

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

The air was quiet and still. It felt weird to be standing on solid ground again. "Worst away team ever," Josh said, wading up onto land. "Not a single redshirt.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Be still. The Hanging Gardens were a dreamThat over Persian roses flew to kissThe curlèd lashes of Semiramis.Troy never was, nor green Skamander stream.

Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn't overreact or underreact.

The music's still going, going absolutely nowhere, like Philip Glass on Quaaludes.

Caesar, Now be still, I killed not thee with half so good a will?

You have the potential for becoming air; as still, as necessary, just there.