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Quotes About Serene

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.
~ Kate Bernheimer
am reminded of Byron's wonderful description of the rainbow that sits "Like Hope upon a death-bed" on the verge of a wild, rushing cataract; yet, "while all around is torn / By the distracted waters," the rainbow stays serene: Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Could you please put this--could you all put these--could you get dressed, please? The woman only bestowed a serene smile on me. We are as the Goddess requires. The Goddess requires you to be naked on my lawn?
~ Kelley Armstrong
It was a fine morning. On the car radio, station KGMB was playing hymns. The
~ Ken Follett
As quiet as a lamb.
~ William Shakespeare
And now I see with eye sereneThe very pulse of the machine.
~ William Wordsworth
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
~ William Wordsworth
And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine A being breathing thoughtful breath A traveler betwixt life and death The reason firm the temperate will Endurance Foresight Strength and skill
~ William Wordsworth
Baptiste and Running Stream spread their robes on a soft, grassy spot thirty feet from the fire under a sky clustered with stars thick and big as columbine in June.
~ Win Blevins
And then some days you wake up and everything is perfect.
~ David Nicholls
Having a stepmother as serenely unflappable as Lady Tiverton could not have helped matters, and her father was wholly insensitive.
~ Deanna Raybourn
A woman is a blue sky with flying white clouds of emotions.
~ Debasish Mridha
You will not be able to find outer calmness if your heart is carrying a storm.
~ Debasish Mridha
une couche douce tapissée de thym sec
~ Jean Giono
Far below, making their way through the swinging glass doors, a retinue of Buddhist monks entered the Shopping Center. They approached in single file, heads shaven, their robes flowing behind them like a flood of freshly squeezed Florida orange juice. The crowd melted, parting like a biblical sea to allow them through. The guard abashedly lowered his nightstick and stepped hastily aside. And the monks, without pause or ceremony, simply mounted the escalator and rode it to the next level.
~ Jeff Greenwald
That summer rain I mean that is so quiet and matter of fact and falls straight down like a curtain. Now
~ Elizabeth Berg
Outside, it snowed; fat, lazy flakes, drifting with soft intention toward the place they were meant to land.
~ Elizabeth Berg
to go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is so ineffably pure that it makes me gasp, and I feel a black and sinful object in the midst of all the spotlessness.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
you look like the spirit of the island, with moss in your hair and wind in your eyes, and sun and stars mixed in your face.
~ Algernon Blackwood
ARAH lay on a quilt under a tree. The darkness was all around her, but through the branches she could see one bright star. It was comfortable to look at.
~ Alice Dalgliesh
There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.
~ Alice Meynell
Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
~ Alice Walker
The moments in life where everything is as it should be, are precious.
~ Allison DuBois
Si svegliò al canto degli uccelli, con la bruma del primo mattino che saliva oltre l'erba alta dov'era sdraiata. Sul volto erano impressi i segni delle margherite schiacciate, i fiorellini richiusi sotto il viso fragile.
~ Alyson Richman