Samuel R. Delany Quotes

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

Before, for me, peace could have been synonymous with boredom.

Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.

Malacca is such a rest after the crowds of Japan and the noisy hurry of China! Its endless afternoon remains unbroken except by the dreamy, colored, slow-moving Malay life which passes below the hill. There is never any hurry or noise.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older.

There is still time - in the lee, in the quiet, in the extraordinary light.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.

What people will do to get away from boredom!

I haven't have fun for a long time," Kaia said with a pout. "Me, either. Except with myself, but I don't suppose that counts." "It does the way I do it.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.

Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionally calming.

Every day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shopping, so it's pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you're traveling, you're all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.

I have very few hobbies. In fact, I have no hobbies.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

When I go home and get off tour, I'd like to have a peace of mind. I like to chill. I don't like everything to be all chaotic like how it is when I step outside, you know?

I wouldn't know how to handle serenity if somebody handed it to me on a plate.

The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.