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Quotes About Serene

I am not a confrontational person. I have never had a fight in my life - neither with a man nor a girl.
~ Hrithik Roshan
I normally don't get frizzled.
~ Matt Nagy
When I come home, I need to feel instantly disconnected. In the rest of my life, I feel overstimulated. Here, I want things to be serene and unfussy, full of objects I love - but not too many of them.
~ Nina Garcia
Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.
~ William Rose Benet
I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous.
~ Octavio Paz
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.
~ Oscar Wilde
The road went ever more steeply downhill. Overhead, the branches of the trees intertwined. It was a still, windless morning, cloudy and damp.
~ Cornelia Funke
Jane resembled nothing so much as a pregnant angel. She
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
But the Midwest: It is quietly lovely, not preening with the need to have its attributes remarked on. It is the place I am calmest and most myself.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
He had kept the surface of his confidence in her quite serene. And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The sky was a clear, fresh blue
~ Daisy Meadows
Loch Tay; and
~ Walter Scott
It was still dark outside and bitter cold although mercifully there was little wind. Why is it calm in the early morning? You will notice that lakes are usually still and smooth before daybreak.
~ Charles Portis
I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
~ Charlie Kaufman
It's not arrogance. [Tamilians] are quiet people.
~ Chetan Bhagat
The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The Muse's friend, Tea, does our fancy aid; Repress those vapors which the head invade; And keeps that palace of the soul serene....
~ Edmund Waller, "Of Tea"
I never get tired of the blue sky..
~ Vincent van Gogh, letter, 1889
Stars look serene, but they are incredibly violent furnaces that occasionally erupt...
~ Isaac Asimov
Winter is a white-gray paradise blunted of details — the simple season.
~ Terri Guillemets
Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods is the occasional twinkle of partridgeberries. But they are the gem stones, the rare decorations which make the grays, the browns and the greens seem even more quiet, more completely at rest.
~ Hal Borland
When a life ebbs away, it is peaceful and painless.
~ Lee Gutkind
After a lie truth bursts out, and it is no longer the radiant and serene goddess knew or hoped for—it is a disease, it is a moral syphilis and will ravage until the body in which it can dwell has been purged.
~ James Stephens
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.
~ Jane Austen