stillness

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
721068a	I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.	emptiness normalcy numbness stillness	Sylvia Plath
20e5f3c	Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.	impermanence insight mujō philosophy stillness time 無常	David Foster Wallace
a40ae84	I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.	normalcy numbness stillness	Sylvia Plath
ff0fae4	Feel your emotions	essence ineffable inspirational living loving passion stillness tao	Geoffrey M. Gluckman
682b65c	"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,	loss poems quotes stillness	D.H. Lawrence
fd5e0e8	[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.	isolation loneliness modern-society noise peace shallowness silence stillness technology	Wallace Stegner
e17564f	"There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die."	fun life nature quiet stillness	Beryl Markham
e699784	Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance...	stillness	Annie Dillard
e724990	"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still."	arrival attachment belonging completion fullfilment home homecoming homelessness journey-s-end roots stillness	Ellis Peters
9e48b50	"My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting."	stillness time	Henry David Thoreau
3169537	There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.	joy rage roose-bolton stillness	George R.R. Martin
618fae3	I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.	grief stillness	Iris Murdoch
2b29eae	In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.	awaken contemplate depression full numb pain remember sorrow stillness wakefulness	Robin Hobb
77b9ae5	I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.	convalescence healing recovery slowness stillness	Rebecca Solnit
29b6610	As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.	breath breathing meditation stillness unawareness	Jon Kabat-Zinn
f8c7fd8	A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.	stillness	Kate Elliott
20a7590	It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.	stillness	Mark Helprin
2333552	After long years of solitary meditation, Jenny had come to accept that, for her, magic was a depth and a stillness rather than the moving brilliance that it was for the great.	meditation solitude stillness	Barbara Hambly

721068a

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

emptiness normalcy numbness stillness

Sylvia Plath

20e5f3c

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

impermanence insight mujō philosophy stillness time 無常

David Foster Wallace

a40ae84

I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. I felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

normalcy numbness stillness

Sylvia Plath

ff0fae4

Feel your emotions

essence ineffable inspirational living loving passion stillness tao

Geoffrey M. Gluckman

682b65c

"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,

loss poems quotes stillness

D.H. Lawrence

fd5e0e8

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneliest hour the automatic ice-maker in the refrigerator will cluck and drop an ice cube, the automatic dishwasher will sigh through its changes, a plane will drone over, the nearest freeway will vibrate the air. Red and white lights will pass in the sky, lights will shine along highways and glance off windows. There is always a radio that can be turned to some all-night station, or a television set to turn artificial moonlight into the flickering images of the late show. We can put on a turntable whatever consolation we most respond to, Mozart or Copland or the Grateful Dead.

isolation loneliness modern-society noise peace shallowness silence stillness technology

Wallace Stegner

e17564f

"There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die."

fun life nature quiet stillness

Beryl Markham

e699784

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance...

stillness

Annie Dillard

e724990

"If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still."

arrival attachment belonging completion fullfilment home homecoming homelessness journey-s-end roots stillness

Ellis Peters

9e48b50

"My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting."

stillness time

Henry David Thoreau

3169537

There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.

joy rage roose-bolton stillness

George R.R. Martin

618fae3

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

grief stillness

Iris Murdoch

2b29eae

In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.

awaken contemplate depression full numb pain remember sorrow stillness wakefulness

Robin Hobb

77b9ae5

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

convalescence healing recovery slowness stillness

Rebecca Solnit

29b6610

As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.

breath breathing meditation stillness unawareness

Jon Kabat-Zinn

f8c7fd8

A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.

stillness

Kate Elliott

20a7590

It was easy to be clever, but hard to look into the face of God, who is found not so much by cleverness as by stillness.

stillness

Mark Helprin

2333552

After long years of solitary meditation, Jenny had come to accept that, for her, magic was a depth and a stillness rather than the moving brilliance that it was for the great.

meditation solitude stillness

Barbara Hambly