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Tranquillity Quotes

Phyllis Diller quote: "Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle..."
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children. Phyllis Diller
Christian Nestell Bovee quote: "Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear..."
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Christian Nestell Bovee
Charlotte Bronte quote: "It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but..."
It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more. Charlotte Bronte
It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more. Charlotte Bronte
One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility. Leo Tolstoy
enjoying a tranquillity in which I won’t write the works I don’t write now, and to keep on not writing them I’ll come up with even better excuses than the ones I use today to elude myself. Or I’ll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were no more than beggars with dreams, thrown in with the anonymous throng of those who didn’t have strength enough to conquer nor renunciation enough to conquer enough to conquer nor... Fernando Pessoa
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the..."
So bless me then, you tranquil eye that can behold even the greatest happiness without envy! Friedrich Nietzsche
The thunder traveled over the ship, from west to east, with prolonged reverberations, before it moved away with its clouds, leaving the sea, by mid-afternoon, bathed in a strange auroral light, which turned its as smooth and iridescent as a mountain lake. The bow of the Arrow became a plough, breaking up the tranquility of the surface with the frothy arabesques of its wake. Pg 301 Explosion in the Cathedral Alejo Carpentier
the Lake of Shining Waters was blue? blue? blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams. L. M. Montgomery
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her. Charles Dickens
Having never fancied herself in love before, her regard had all the warmth of first attachment, and from her age and disposition, greater steadiness than first attachments often boast; and so fervently did she value his remembrance, and prefer him to every other man, that all her good sense, and all her attention to the feelings of her friends, were requisite to check the indulgence of those regrets, which must have been injurious to her own health and their tranquility. Jane Austen
Jose Rizal quote: "Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime..."
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience. Jose Rizal
Khalil Gibran quote: "Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence..."
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity: Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. Khalil Gibran
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps,... Alexis de Tocqueville

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