“I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 258 of 276
“I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.”
“Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.”
“But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.”
“I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.”
“It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.”
“I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community.”
“Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.”
“A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.”
“A naked moon stood in a naked sky.”
“Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.”
“I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.”
“My space is small. My life is big.”
“London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.”
“I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.”
“There's a balance and I feel very, very strong and very, very fit at the moment. There's no - touch wood - niggles at the moment, there's nothing that's twinging or nothing that's too painful. Apart from a bit of chafing from the wetsuit!”
“COLD. Healthier than heat.”
“There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.”
“I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.”
“Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.”