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.	numbness emptiness stillness normalcy	Sylvia Plath
20e5f3c	Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.	time philosophy impermanence mujō 無常 stillness insight	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.	numbness stillness normalcy	Sylvia Plath
ff0fae4	Feel your emotions	passion ineffable living inspirational essence tao loving stillness	Geoffrey M. Gluckman
682b65c	"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,	loss poems stillness quotes	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.	loneliness silence shallowness modern-society stillness isolation peace noise 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."	nature fun life stillness quiet	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."	completion fullfilment journey-s-end arrival homelessness belonging homecoming stillness attachment roots home	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."	time stillness	Henry David Thoreau
3169537	There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.	rage joy 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.	pain depression sorrow stillness contemplate awaken full numb wakefulness remember	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 slowness healing stillness recovery	Rebecca Solnit
29b6610	As you begin befriending your breath, you see immediately that unawareness is everywhere.	unawareness breath breathing stillness meditation	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.	solitude stillness meditation	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.

numbness emptiness stillness normalcy

Sylvia Plath

20e5f3c

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

time philosophy impermanence mujō 無常 stillness insight

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.

numbness stillness normalcy

Sylvia Plath

ff0fae4

Feel your emotions

passion ineffable living inspirational essence tao loving stillness

Geoffrey M. Gluckman

682b65c

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

loss poems stillness quotes

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.

loneliness silence shallowness modern-society stillness isolation peace noise 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."

nature fun life stillness quiet

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."

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

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."

time stillness

Henry David Thoreau

3169537

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

rage joy 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.

pain depression sorrow stillness contemplate awaken full numb wakefulness remember

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 slowness healing stillness recovery

Rebecca Solnit

29b6610

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

unawareness breath breathing stillness meditation

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.

solitude stillness meditation

Barbara Hambly