Stillness Quotes

383 Stillness quotes by 227 unique authors

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home — George MacDonald
Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep… — Louis L'Amour
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain… — Eckhart Tolle
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in… — Pearl Cleage
Stillness is the altar of spirit. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a… — William Shakespeare
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow.… — Elizabeth Bishop
Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into… — John Burroughs
This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is." "What?" "The rest of them know… — Neil Gaiman
It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated.… — Janet Fitch
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. — P.G. Wodehouse
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and… — Saul Bellow
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and… — William Shakespeare
Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through… — David Wroblewski
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. — Dodie Smith
in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was… — Hermann Hesse
The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because… — William James
There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't… — J D Salinger
Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie… — Sue Monk Kidd
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which… — Paul Brunton
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually… — Elizabeth Gilbert
December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad… — Siegfried Sassoon

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