Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.

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

Take time to be quiet.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall.

The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver.

I think when we don't know what to do it's wise to do nothing. Sit down quietly; quiet our hearts and minds and breathe deeply.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in