Quotes About Peace

I love the hush of those deserted places, those old battlefields, always so breathtaking, as if we, as a species, have decided to fight only in beautiful places.

This is a good place for thinking about your life, a few days in this place.

The absence of war did not mean that the vacuum would necessarily be replaced by peace. In the no man's land between Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles, Europe revolted and Britain faced chaos as the civil unrest of wartime spread.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Sometimes there is nothing quite

It will be worth it, if in the end I manage To blank out whatever it is that is doing the damage. Then there will be nothing I know. My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow.

Viciously, then, I lock my door. The gas-fire breathes. The wind outside Ushers in evening rain. Once more Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

Alone now, in my dark room, The pebbles cease to drop into the rocking pool And gradually the surface quietens Reflecting image of darkest peace and silence. No questions catch the clothes But only as it were a spreading Draws all threads to their finished pattern And you are pieced together bit by bit Set against the evening Lovely and glowing, like a chain of gold from "(A Study in Light and Dark)

fatal stabbing of a young black spectator while Mick Jagger vainly appealed to the crowd to "cool out" and love one another. Good-bye Sixties; welcome to the future.

Personally, he much preferred to get them chatting. People were generally much less inclined to want to kill you once you'd chatted for a bit, and if they weren't, well, at least you could use the time to think of an escape plan.

Come, Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th' indifferent judge between the high and low; With shield of proof shield me from out the prease Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw.

If we are honest with ourselves we have to admit that unless we rid ourselves of our nuclear arsenals a holocaust not only might occur but will occur," wrote Jonathan Schell in his influential book The Fate of the Earth, "if not today, then tomorrow; if not this year, then the next.

Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet...Every step makes a flower bloom.

People who argue do not understand; And people who understand do not argue.

Obedience appears to me more and more the whole business of life, the only road to love and peace.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

C'est pas toujours facile, le soir, d'entrer dans une chambre et de s'asseoir au bord du lit pour défaire tranquillement ses lacets et ensuite se glisser dans les draps et regarder le plafond d'un coeur léger.

All I want is to stand in a field and to smell green, to taste air, to feel the earth want me, Without all this concrete hating me.

The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence...

O men, grown sick with toil and care, Leave for awhile the crowded mart; O women, sinking with despair, Weary of limb and faint of heart, Forget your years to-day and come As children back to childhood's house.

the best things in life aren't things...

The whole place seemed wrapped in isolated autumn silence.