Lizz Wright Quotes

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether 'The Age of Innocence' or the latest by Colm Toibin.

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

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

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

Silence is so accurate.

I aspire only to silence.

Silence is best.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

On all the peaks lies peace.

I like silence.

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

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.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

I really love peace and quiet.

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

It was night and I could see a large and calm lake, reflecting the moon. Black mountains rose around it. I arrived from between two of these mountains, I looked at the lake and the moon, and that was it, nothing else happened.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

I want to live quietly.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Listen to the sound of silence.

Silence is the most powerful state.