Quotes About Peace

A conscience at ease is a pillow on which we may sleep soundly even in a dungeon.

all sein Hab und Gut befand. Er war aber fröhlich und guter Dinge, und hatte an der schönen, weißen Winterlandschaft umher und an den bereiften Hecken und Gesträuchen am Wege seine herzliche Freude. Indes

Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked. No, but it's very sweet of you. Eragon to Saphira

Real strength isn't control. It's knowing when to let go.

Peace wasn't what I found when I did finally fall into sleep, though. A strange dream came instead. It wasn't one of mine, though, I could tell immediately. Maybe it belonged to someone in my family, or maybe to someone nearby. I had no idea. But wherever the dream came from, it swooped into my room on dark feathers, plucked me up like a baby, and carried me away to another world, where the peace of sleep did not exist.

I then fell asleep fast. Fell being the key word. Fell into the place called sleep, where we rest. Where we find peace for a little while.

To stay married, you need a fair amount of ignorance. Selective forgetting is what makes close proximity possible. It's what we forget about someone that lets us find some peace, some happiness.

There were things violence could solve—you couldn't be a soldier and not believe that—but this wasn't one of them.

Man seeks oblivion .

Cuando expones la bulliciosa naturaleza del miedo a la clara luz de la serenidad, todos los miedos desaparecen en el acto.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Ei surusta ole sanottavaa Se on vihollinen jonka syliin rauhoitut

The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day.

The experience profoundly changed my perspective. In the hospital, I hadn't perceived the anxiety and foreboding that permeated birth until I experienced the impact of its absence among the midwives. The peace, wonder, and intimacy were infinitely greater. What a compelling difference!

If the dead could speak there would be no more war. Heinrich Böll; "The Stories of Heinrich Böll"

We have a saying in Tibet: If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be solved, worrying will do no good.

Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight. My heartfelt wish is that my story may create some understanding for a people whose will to live in peace and freedom has won so little sympathy from an indifferent world.

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

If you are lucky enough to find somewhere you want to be, then you should be there.

I wish I was away in Ingo Far across the briny sea Sailing over deepest waters Where neither care nor worry trouble me.

They stand close for a while, not touching, but breathing each other's breath. The city is silent now, as if for peace.