Britne Oldford Quotes

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

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

A grave is such a quiet place.

Silence is best.

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

I am a glutton for tranquility.

You have to be calm as a manger.

I really like walking through Brompton Cemetery. It's really peaceful.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

With awe, around these silent walks I tread; These are the lasting mansions of the dead.

There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

The hushed winds their Sabbath keep.

A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

Peace and quiet govern the world.

Silence 'tis awe decrees.

Quiet through the grave go I; or else beneath the graves I lie

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

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Quiet is better than loud.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.