Quotes About Calm

A body 'as to move gentle an' speak low when wild things is about.

in a still, delicious room, with the summer morning sunshine

A body has to move gentle and speak low when wild things are about.

She lay and listened to the quietness.

The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it.

Sometimes she has imagined what it would be like to fly, to live in the river, to run like a horse. She has dreamed of that freedom, that power, and fears the wildness in herself that wants to live as beasts live, moved purely by need and desire. She has felt torn between the heat of her limbs and the thoughts in her mind telling her to be careful and good and always calm

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

You're worrying about things you can't control. Just take things one day at a time.

How seductive it is to live in peace, she thought.

He could see it stretching ahead of him, a time of relative quiet in a hidden sietch, a moment of peace between periods of violence.

In ten years, I've never felt so calm. So right. This would be a fine death. . . A fine death. But there are the thousands to think of. . . and Harvey. . . I have to know.

Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions

The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.

If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

Hier war es wohl die Müdigkeit inmitten glücklicher Arbeit; etwas, was nach außen hin wie Müdigkeit aussah und eigentlich unzerstörbare Ruhe, unzerstörbarer Frieden war.

he gave way to a pleasant lassitude

mas manteve uma calma absoluta durante a agonia porque é uma lei tornar a morte leve aos moribundos, de acordo com as nossas próprias forças

Huzur mu istiyorsun ? Az insan, az eÅŸya

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

What if I slept a little more and forget about all this nonsense.

Moonlight lay everywhere with the naturalness and serenity no other light is granted.

Whenever K. started shouting they became calm, almost sad, confusing him or, in a way, bringing him back to his senses.

he surrendered to a pleasant feeling of weariness

Por lo tanto, tal vez sea mejor soportarlo todo con pasividad, comportarse como una simple masa, y si uno se siente arrastrado, no dejarse inducir al menor paso innecesario, contemplar a los demás con la mirada de un animal, no sentir ningún remordimiento en fin, ahogar con una sola mano el fantasma de vida que aún subsista, es decir, aumentar en lo posible la postrera calma sepulcral, y no dejar subsistir nada más.