Quotes About Peace

It was Christmas morning, and all was right with the world.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

It's okay, sweetheart," he said, smoothing his hand over her forehead. "I'll hold up the world for a while so you can rest. Don't worry; just sleep. I've got this.

He lit his cigar and sat back at peace with the world; I, too, was at peace in another world than his. We both were happy. He talked of Julia and I heard his voice, unintelligible at a great distance, like a dog's barking miles away on a still night.

This war has begun in darkness and it will end in silence.

a sigh fit for the pillow, the sinking firelight, and a bedroom window open to the stars and the whisper of bare trees.

a necklace of pearls on a white neck. We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down. ... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty...

The next four weeks of solitary confinement were among the happiest of Paul's life...It was so exhilarating, he found, never to have to make any decision on any subject, to be wholly relieved from the smallest consideration of time, meas, or clothes, to have no anxiety ever about what kind of impression he was making; in fact, to be free.

Wars don't start nowadays because people want them. We long for peace, and fill our newspapers with conferences about disarmament and arbitration, but there is a radical instability in our whole world order, and soon we shall all be walking into the jaws of destruction again, protesting our pacific intentions.

In the week which preceded the outbreak of the Second World War – days of surmise and apprehension which cannot, without irony, be called the last days of peace – and on the Sunday morning when all doubts were finally resolved and misconceptions corrected, three rich women thought first and mainly of Basil Seal.

If she apostatized now, having been brought up in the Church, she would go to hell, while the Protestant girls of her acquaintance, schooled in happy ignorance, could marry eldest sons, live at peace with their world, and get to heaven before her.

The perfect leisure which those people alone enjoy who are untroubled by the speculative or artistic itch.

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

The diplomats were at their customary business of making the world safe for new wars.

Two out of every three professional officers considered that wars were made for armies and not armies for wars.

Sleep - real sleep, the dear, the cherished one, the lullaby. So deep and warm the bed and the pillow enfolding me, letting me sink into peace, nothingness - my dreams now, after the catharsis of the dark hours, are of young and lovely people doing young, lovely things, the girls I knew once, with big brown eyes, real yellow hair.

Durante il fragoroso decollo Dick si sentì intorpidito, rendendosi conto di quanto fosse stanco. Un'enorme persuasiva tranquillità s'impossessò di lui, e lasciò la malattia ai malati, il rumore ai motori, la direzione ai piloti.

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.

He doesn't want any trouble with ANYbody.' 'Who doesn't?' I inquired. 'Gatsby. Somebody told me——

BinecuvântaÈ›i sunt morÈ›ii peste care cade ploaia

Bénis soient les morts sur qui tombe la pluie.

If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.

And when you wonder where I am, just look up at the sun and that's where I'll be.