Stillness Quotes - page 2

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. (A. R. Ammons)
Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me. View quote
Adam Baldwin
When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience. View quote
Theodore Bikel
When winds are raging oer the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soeer it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face. View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. View quote
Mark Rothko
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. View quote
Bruce Lee
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. View quote
Gore Vidal
That in which consciousness happens, the universal consciousness or mind, we call the ether of consciousness. All the objects of consciousness form the universe. What is beyond both, supporting both, is the supreme state, a state of utter stillness and silence. Whoever goes there, disappears. It is unreachable by words, or mind. You may call it God, or Parabrahman, or Supreme Reality, but these are names given by the mind. It is the nameless, contentless, effortless and spontaneous state, beyond being and not being. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it. (Karen Blixen)
Will moved on grimly, screwing up his eyes against the glare, ignoring the worsening pain from his hand, and finally reaching a state in which movement alone was good and stillness bad, so that he suffered more from resting than from toiling on. And since the failure of the witches' spell to stop his bleeding, he thought they were regarding him with fear, too, as if he was marked by some curse greater than their own powers. View quote
Philip Pullman
Directing an austere look at Tubby's receding back, she spoke in a cold crisp voice which sounded in the drowsy stillness like ice tinkling in a pitcher. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
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. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God. View quote
Jim Elliot
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 pass. View quote
Elizabeth Gilbert
How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! 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 also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. View quote
Hermann Hesse
You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Night with all her negro train, Took possession of the plain; In an hearse she rode reclin'd. Drawn by screech-owls slow and blind: Close to her, with printless feet, Crept Stillness in a winding sheet. View quote
Christopher Smart
A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense. The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke.... It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering. (Tanith Lee)
Stillness is the altar of spirit. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. View quote
Thomas Gray
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. View quote
Jonathan Franzen
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet. View quote
D. H. Lawrence