Quotes About Peace

Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive.

I like the sky. You can look at it forever and never get tired of it, and when you don't want to look at it anymore, you stop.

It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring.

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly, said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of her plate and dabbed at her mouth with a handkerchief. There's no need to raise your voice here. You don't have to convince anybody of anything, and you don't have to attract anyone's attention.

Sometimes, I imagine how great it would be if we could live our lives without bothering other people.

This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall asleep.

The unwaking world was as hushed as a deep forest.

There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.

As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm thinking of not a thing. All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.

I'm glad to know that time still keeps on flowing at four in the morning.

They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. All quite simple, if you want to look at it that way. Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. Hence I can live with it. But after I'm dead, can't I just lie in peace? Those Egyptian pharoahs had a point, wanting to shut themselves up inside pyramids.

Death was as silent as the ocean bottom, as sweet as a rose in May.

It's hard to stop a war once it starts. Once the sword is drawn, blood's going to be spilled. This doesn't have anything to do with theory or logic, or even my ego. It's just a rule, pure and simple.

So in the end maybe that's the challenge: to look inside your own heart as perceptively and seriously as you can, and to make peace with what you find there. If we hope to truly see another person, we have to start by looking within ourselves.

When people are dead, you can forgive them 'most anything.

If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect.

And any anxiety that is to not especially anxious is in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.

Of course, she must be sleeping, sleeping deeply, wrapped in the darkness of that strange little world of hers.

He could well imagine what the moon had given her: pure solitude and tranquillity. That was the best thing the moon could give a person.