As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.
The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes.
People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity. I was a painter before I was a writer and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
The principles of my works. . . are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity. . . My ideal is the completely dark picture, full of some overwhelming silence.
