Silence And Calm Quotes

#1. All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Bayazid Bastami

#2. A complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm.

Umberto Eco

#3. Long drawn, the cool, green shadows
Steal o'er the lake's warm breast,
And the ancient silence follows
The burning sun to rest. The calm of a thousand summers,
And dreams of countless Junes,
Return when the lake-wind murmurs
Through golden August noons.

William Braithwaite

#4. The trip itself was the usual...adulation from all sides, rose petals strewn in my path everywhere I went, silver bells festooning the howdah on my private white elephant...you know the drill. I maintained my customary demeanor or regal calm and enigmatic silence throughout.

Charlotte MacLeod

#5. Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. The silence surged back, smoothing itself as black water smooths to its old surface calm over a dropped stone.

Sylvia Plath

#7. Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Man's desire is to know the mind of God.

Jared Brock

#9. All still when summer is over stand shocks in the field, nothing left to whisper, not even good-bye, to the wind. After summer was over we knew winter would come: we knew silence would wait, tall, patient calm.

William Stafford

#10. O Lord, make my soul a sanctuary, a fortress within. That no one and nothing can disturb. A place of calm, silence, and serenity, untouched by the outside world. The soul that Allah (swt) calls al-nafs al mutmaina (the reassured soul). (Qur'an 89:27) The soul that Allah (swt) calls back saying:

Yasmin Mogahed

#11. To be wise means to know when to stay silent.

Kamand Kojouri

#12. Mercy?" His voice was very calm, that "people are going to die" calm only he could do. As soon as he started to speak, silence fell behind him because I wasn't the only one who knew that voice.

Patricia Briggs

#13. Now more than ever, 33 Himmel Street was a place of silence, and it did not go unnoticed that the Duden Dictionary was completely and utterly mistaken, especially with its related words.
Silence was not quiet or calm, and it was not peace.

Markus Zusak

#14. I didn't move; I just waited out the night. The school was quiet around me, and I let the silence calm my heartbreak, lull me into a sleepless trance as I stared past my reflection in the dark glass, and whispered, "Happy birthday, Daddy.

Ally Carter

#15. Everybody who knows us knows we always have a good time.

Maurice Gibb

#16. Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!

Gary Neville

#17. An amber sunset, a flowing river, a snow capped mountain, a beautiful heart, a calm mind, deep eyes, the moon, the earth and the sky - they are all silent. It's the words that give them meaning, decipher their essence and share their message.

Rashmit Kalra

#18. These are people that don't want to protect the American people ... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Tom DeLay

#19. Explain yourself when it is a must, but sometimes, in life, keep quit when people think you are mad or you shall speak and speak how mad they think you are!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

Stephen Richards

#21. Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Paul Valery

#22. I went upstairs to my room. Momentarily I felt a sense of calm, almost acceptance. Rest beyond the river. I knew now what that meant. It meant Nothing. It meant only silence forever.

Margaret Laurence

#23. Silent is an anagram of listen.

Johnny Rich

#24. I always thought I'd adopt - I have a dog but no children.

Perrey Reeves

#25. Brenna is my calm in life. She is my peace and my silence in a world that never stops talking or moving.

Lacey Dailey

#26. Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains and the sea. They bore through silent nature in every direction with their machines, for fear that the calm world might accuse them of their own emptiness.

Thomas Merton

#27. If you can see silence as the ground of all words and the birth of all words, then you will find that when you speak, your words will be more well-chosen and calm. Francis

Richard Rohr

#28. God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.

Beth Moore

#29. My thoughts are quiet, but not calm. There is a terror on the edge of the silence, a terror fed by my burning flesh and the stench of death.

Christine Fonseca

#30. love.
love isn't having butterflies all the time, i think love is calm. love is comfortable. i could sit in silence with you for the rest of our lives and it would mean more than a thousand words with anyone else.

F.R. Media

#31. Silence.
Give me control. Give me calm. Give me restraint.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. A woman only loses herself when she stops looking, that no role is too confining or too grand for a woman of valor.

Rachel Held Evans

#33. This is wilderness, to walk in silence.
This is wilderness, to calm the mind.
This is wilderness, my return to composure.

Terry Tempest Williams

#34. Man is a creature of light and air, and I should therefore recommend little or no clothing when training.

George Hackenschmidt