Dormant Quote by Joseph Conrad

“It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it…

— Joseph Conrad

Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Shut out from the world with its blare and glare, life in an institution moves softly. The ears become attuned to gentle notes and…

— Mary B. Harris

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

— William Wordsworth

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images,…

— William Butler Yeats

Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they no longer feel the aliveness within them.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“As it is, we are merely bolting our lives—gulping down undigested experiences as fast as we can stuff them in—because awareness of our own…

— Alan Wilson Watts

When Robert Bly visited Interlochen Center for the Arts so many years ago, he spoke to the creative writing majors and said, "The eye…

— Jack Driscoll

Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and…

— William Wordsworth

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the…

— George Eliot

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty and charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we…

— Jawaharlal Nehru