Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

He wants only to rest and to have a little peace.

I like silence.

I really love peace and quiet.

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

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

Peace and quiet govern the world.

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

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.

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

Silence is best.

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

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

I like my world to be calm.

There is such a peace out in the middle of the desert. There's nothing like it.

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn.

Let us have the luxury of silence.