Tranquillity Quotes

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

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

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.

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.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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