Stillness Quotes

383 Stillness quotes by 227 unique authors

Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence… — Laura Moriarty
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Ask Me Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life.… — William Stafford
They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries… — Spencer W. Kimball
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall. — Carson McCullers
There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken. — Jonathan Franzen
There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every… — Alan Moore
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is… — Ramana Maharshi
Rin slept inside the oak’s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself. — Shannon Hale
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness.… — Margaret Haddix
Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when… — Deb Caletti
In the stillness, a fly would not have dared clear it's throat. — Douglas Adams
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet. — D. H. Lawrence
Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance... — Annie Dillard
Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we… — Rainer Maria Rilke
For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the… — Alexander Masters
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it… — Eckhart Tolle
I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut… — Dodie Smith
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room.… — Stephenie Meyer
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations. — Sharon Salzberg
There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same. — George R. R. Martin
At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine,… — Ellen Hopkins
He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied. — David Foster Wallace

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