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Quotes About Still

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.
~ Freya Stark
I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.
~ Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
~ W. H. Auden
for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.
~ Dodie Smith
It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet
~ Dodie Smith
I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
~ Jack Kevorkian
The peace you shall desire is that sacred peace which nothing can disturb, and in which the soul grows as does the holy flower upon the still lagoons. And
~ Mabel Collins
His face was like a quiet pool that would hold everything safe in its depth.
~ Madeline Miller
But Vienna was in its death phase; it lay still and let me look at it, and think about it, and look again. In a living city, I could never have noticed so much. Living cities don't hold still.
~ John Irving
In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.
~ Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
Ive finally found that life goes on without you and my world still turns when youre not around.
~ Unknown
Life is like the ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end, it is always Beautiful.
~ Unknown
El hombre no dijo nada.
~ Maj Sjowall
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
~ John Muir
God is love Fear not Be still Know the truth Love your neighbor as you love yourself Love one another as I have loved you
~ Unknown
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
~ Zadie Smith
I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost is already behind the locked doors. The fear is for what is still to be lost.
~ Joan Didion
Life is like the Ocean. It can be calm or still, and rough or rigid, but in the end it's always beautiful.
~ Unknown
Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.
~ James Dashner, The Kill Order
became a mute
~ Unknown
You still are? There go my plans! And the suit I had bought to attend your funeral. Well, well. Anyway, do call me up when you an't.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Just a regular projectile, not an explosive one, so most of my back was still there. I just didn't feel like walking around leaking in front of humans right now.
~ Martha Wells
Life is like an ocean. It can be calm or still and rough or rigid. But in the end, it's always beautiful.
~ Unknown
In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.
~ Marya Hornbacher