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• "I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Men, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.339, Courier Corporation

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• Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Sunshine, Sunday, Air

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane, 1935.

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• I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Space, Breathing

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• Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Thinking, Medicine

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• One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book.

  Terrance Hayes

  Smart, Book, Achievement

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• Christ is already in that place of peace, which is all in all. He is on the right hand of God. He is hidden in the brightness of the radiance which issues from the everlasting throne. He is in the very abyss of peace, where there is no voice of tumult or distress, but a deep stillness--stillness, that greatest and most awful of all goods which we can fancy; that most perfect of joys, the utter profound, ineffable tranquillity of the Divine Essence. He has entered into His rest. That is our home; here we are on a pilgrimage, and Christ calls us to His many mansions which He has prepared.

  John Henry Newman

  Home, Voice, Issues

  Blessed John Henry Newman, Aeterna Press “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, Aeterna Press

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• We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Almost Perfect, Incredibles, Urgency

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• Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Healing, Heart, Perfect

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1264, Jazzybee Verlag

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• With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Benediction

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• He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Fire, Air

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.757, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

  William James

  Real, Night, Two

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

  Tristan Tzara

  Buddhist, Passion, Butterfly

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• Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Cities, Water

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• He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mom, Thinking, Dating

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• There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

  Annie Dillard

  Moving, Later In Life, Cells

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• For a moment, they all stood staring at each other. Then Holly shattered the stillness by throwing herself at Angela. "God, Angie!" she exclaimed, arms locked around her neck. "What Happened?

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Hollies, Arms, Necks

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.355, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dream, Echoes, Long

  "The Raven" l. 25 (1845)

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• I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sister, Sibling, Might

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Isak Dinesen

  Animal, People, Silence

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Morning, Laughter, Eye

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• She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Names, Worry

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.93, A&C Black

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• The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Voice, Whispering

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.21

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• In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Movement, Helping

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• It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

  William Baziotes

  Silence, Want, Mysterious

  William Baziotes, Michael Preble (1988). “William Baziotes: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1952-1961 : 7 March-31 March, 1984”

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• Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond
  measure.

  Bede Griffiths

  Individual

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