Edmund Waller Quotes

I am a glutton for tranquility.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

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

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

On all the peaks lies peace.

I really love peace and quiet.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

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

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Only silence perfects silence.

I'm at peace.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

I feel very peaceful.

There's no shame in longing for peace.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

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.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.