Demetri Martin Quotes

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

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

I'm a laid back dude, I don't really get excited.

Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.

When you don't cling to anything, there is nowhere to go - all boats have been abandoned, you cannot go anywhere; all paths have been dropped, you cannot go anywhere; all dreams and desires have disappeared, there is no way to move. Relaxation happens of its own accord. Just think of the word relax. Be, settle, you have come home.

Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

Truth has not such an urgent air.

The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

all this Beethoven and rain

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

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

Despite my best efforts I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me so no worries.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Calmness is always godlike.

It's all the same to the clam.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.

How silent are the winds!

I haven't any allegiance, any responsibilities, any hatreds, any worries, any prejudices, any passion. I'm neither for nor against. I'm a neutral.