Calm Quote by Madame de Stael

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when…

— Anonymous

I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to…

— John Milton

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if…

— Pythagoras

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the…

— Charles Spurgeon

Only the refined and delicate pleasures that spring from research and education can build up barriers between different ranks.

— Madame de Stael

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

— Cyprian

“Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”

— Nathan Reese Maher

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We…

— Bjornstjerne Bjornson

“[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man’s great striving.]3”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The whirlwind of life It was true. Sometimes life was like that, a wonderful whirlwind that fills us with joy, like a ride on…

— Guillaume Musso

I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.

— William Shakespeare

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust's winter comes ere…

— William Shakespeare