William H. Gass Quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

...So let us welcome peaceful evening in.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

And then more quiet, silence so deep it almost drowned out the roar of the night music that pounded away in my secret self.

Silence is best.

Quiet is better than loud.

I love silence.

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

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

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

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

I like silence.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

The work will stand, no matter what.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I'm at peace.

I really love peace and quiet.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

I want to live quietly.

I feel very peaceful.

I enjoy the quiet life.