Rachel Cohn Quotes

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

It may look like I'm moving but I'm standing still.

Not to act is to act. Not to speak is to speak.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

I'm always doing something that ain't happening, and I'm always happening when there ain't nothing going on.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Life stand still here.

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.

The only menace is inertia.

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Running to stand still -Lena