An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The stillness of God is perfect. Nothing has to be added to it. Nothing can be taken away. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world. — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Very often, in order to bring about stillness we have to be tirelessly active in the outer world. You might suppose this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“The years of stillness, with a life of illness taught me how to fly. Ironic really, they clipped my wings to try… — Nikki rowe Copy Share Image
“Stillness does not mean the absence of sounds, not at all, but rather the tranquillity that allows one to perceive quiet, soft… — Nihad Sirees Copy Share Image
“Bonhoeffer writes, “Real silence, real stillness, really holding one’s tongue comes only as the sober consequence of spiritual stillness.”6” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History… — Terrance Hayes Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“The oaks stand - quite still - so still that the lichen loves them...such solace and solitude seventy-nine miles thick cannot be… — Jefferies Richard 1848-1887 Copy Share Image
Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened… — Rufus Jones Copy Share Image
Something inside you emerges…an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world eastward is almost… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Immediately when you arrive in Sahara, for the first or the tenth time, you notice the stillness. An incredible, absolute silence prevails… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
