Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

Music is something that should give you peace.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Your library is your paradise.

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

I like silence.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'

I really love peace and quiet.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

I feel very peaceful.

Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

You may not be able to change the course of government, but you can achieve some peace. And books were the path to that. I grew up in a house where books were everywhere.

As I've said before, I just want peace.

I feel like golf has brought me some peace.

A rested face is a beautiful face. However you can, find your place of rest and peace.

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.