Quotes About Peace

A tutti i mali vi sono due rimedi: il tempo e il silenzio

on ne peut combattre l'extrême préoccupation que par l'extrême insouciance.

Een zee zonder golven is geen zee

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country

One of the most familiar weaknesses of the human mind is the wish to reconcile contrary principles and buy peace at the expense of logic.

If kings and peoples had only had their true interests in view ever since the beginning of the world, the name of war would scarcely be known among mankind.

Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.

Sleeping solves a lot of problems.

Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.

Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

Uncross your knives

But children can tell when love has been lost, they know when silence means peace and when it's a sign of despair.

Things without all remedy should be without regard

He was a follower of a teacher from Galilee who taught that peace was the only hope for mankind. Without it, we were like the jackals in the desert, nothing more. Beside me

The air itself smelled of peaches, here and all over Unity; when the breeze came up, petals fell like snow. If a person didn't move, if she was completely still, the petals streamed over her, catching in the hem of her clothes, in the strands of her hair, white as snow, quiet as snow, silent and fleeting and drifting down from above to cover her and carry her home.

It was a clear, bright, beautiful day, the air tinged with salt, the climbing roses blooming. The graveyard was filled with sunlight.

From the time I could read, I found solace in my father's library...At the ages of ten and eleven and twelve I would have preferred to remain in the library...

a pretty little minnow...cool as rain, blue as heaven...

As the summer passed, I began to feel free. I had time to myself, and I enjoyed watching over the children. I felt a sort of joy I'd never felt before. I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...

Her husband was asleep beside her. She could

I want to live my own life, to be at peace and not to think all the time about how they hit me and humiliated me and almost tortured me.