Quotes About Peace

Things will be better when everybody's gone. They will? Sure they will. Better for who? Everybody.

I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

Or even knows they need attendin to. But I never done it to benefit myself. Shot that thing. Like I kept peace for seven year sake of a man I never knowed nor seen his face and like I seen them fellers never had no business there and if I couldn't run em off I could anyway let em know they was one man would let on that he knowed what they was up to. But I knowed if they could build it they could build it back and I done it anyway. Ever man loves peace and a old man best of all.

Two wrongs don't make a riot.

while one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked histories often enjoyed lives of comfort and that they died in peace and were buried with honor.

she said that God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence.

But one's convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it. And then I just stopped worrying about it. I accepted the fact that I would die without really knowing where it was that I had been and that was okay. Well. Almost.

And that would be my life. And I would be happy.

se sentó con las manos ahuecadas en el regazo y aparentemente satisfecho con el mundo, como si se le hubiera consultado a él en el momento de su creación.

Evening. The dead sheathed in the earth's crust and turning the slow diurnal of the earth's wheel, at peace with eclipse, asteroid, the dusty novae, their bones brindled with mold and the celled marrow going to frail stone, turning, their fingers laced with roots, at one with Tut and Agamemnon, with the seed and the unborn.

There was nothing to set a man's mind at ease like waking up in the morning and not having to decide who you were.

Lastly she said that God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence.

You think that nuclear war is inevitable. I agree with Plato that only the dead have seen an end to war. And people dont fight with rocks when they have guns. Etcetera and so on.

Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again. Peace. Was that the word?

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.

Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world's more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

Wie gross kleine Geraeusche in der Stille werden.

How loud small noises sound in a silence.

A thousand enemies outside the house/ are better than one within (Arab Proverb)

Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper. But

Nichts verscheuchte böse Träume schneller als das Rascheln von bedrucktem Papier.

You make peace with one sister only to declare war on the other. It's always like that with peace, isn't it? Always to someone's detriment, already sowing the seed for the next war.

The stars shone down on her like flowers made of light, and their beauty hurt her weary heart.