Tranquillity Quotes

Tranquillity Quote of the day

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.

Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!

After that his Majesty was beheaded, the Parliament for some years effected nothing either for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation, or settling religion as they had formerly promised.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquillity.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!

In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!