Tranquillity Quotes
Sad Quotes about Tranquillity

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking
place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
- Billie Jean King

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied
by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained
by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
- Chanakya

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

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement.
Mankind has to be stirred up.
- George Santayana

Houston, Tranquillity Base here.
The Eagle has landed.
- Neil Armstrong

Like ships that have gone down at sea,
when heaven was all tranquillity.
- Thomas Moore

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes
yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
- James Dickey

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet;
a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
- Ann Landers

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity:
they must have action;
and they will make it if they cannot find it.
- Jacob Bronowski

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.
- Charles Horton Cooley

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the
opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts
and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity
and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
- Sidney Altman

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular
view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity;
yet the whole is charged to my account.
Nor is this sufficient.
- Robert Walpole

After that his Majesty was beheaded,
the Parliament for some years effected nothing either
for the publick peace or tranquillity of the nation,
or settling religion as they had formerly promised.
- William Lilly

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here;
because life itself is but motion,
and can never be without desire, nor without fear,
no more than without sense.
- Thomas Hobbes

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil,
when one feels tranquil,
one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them,
one is free of fear.
- The Buddha

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day,
a more tranquil night, and a bright,
infinite future.
- Leonard Bernstein

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion,
but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace;
however once it is offended,
farewell to a tranquil mind.
- Mary Wortley Montagu

Don't ask to live in tranquil times.
Literature doesn't grow there.
- Rita Mae Brown

Tranquil pleasures last the longest;
we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success,
his influence, his power for good.
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of
emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
- Adlai Stevenson

The pursuit, even of the best things,
ought to be calm and tranquil.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace.
I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because
I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
- Harry Vardon

Revolutions are the produce of passion,
not of sober and tranquil reason.
- William Godwin

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty
that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction;
that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we
are still far removed from demanding to possess it.
- Moses Mendelssohn

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world,
but we don't.
And if our times are difficult and perplexing,
so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
- Robert Kennedy

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful.
Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place.
At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it;
but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
- Thomas Arnold

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the
breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not
tranquil but because the danger to every step of the
traveler lies generally with words.
- Xun Zi

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the
trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed,
the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self
when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
- Indra Devi

It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

If anyone is unhappy, remember that
his unhappiness is his own fault...
Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility
except our own opinion.
- Epictetus

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
- James Thurber

Motion is tranquility.
- Stirling Moss

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
- Michel de Montaigne

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
- Kwame Nkrumah

Now painting is different.
It's something recollected in tranquility.
- Jack Levine

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
- Peter Stuyvesant

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds
like a man whose trousers are on fire.
- Clive James

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility;
it is during times of tension,
turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.
- Mike Honda

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.
- Thomas Kempis

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured
by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.
- Swami Sivananda

Movement is tranquility.
- Stirling Moss

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings:
it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
- William Wordsworth

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement.
Mankind has to be stirred up.
- Alfred North Whitehead

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself.
You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things,
because I realize that the biggest risk that many of
us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
- Arundhati Roy

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary,
one would have supposed the North would have been content,
and would have at least respected the security and
tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren;
but such is not human nature.
- Robert Toombs

Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True love is a process of co-creation
in which neither feels ownership or superiority.
Jealousy is a highly destructive force
for love and relationships.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
- William Shakespeare

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus

Neither blame or praise yourself.
- Plutarch

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Service which is rendered without joy
helps neither the servant nor the served.
But all other pleasures and possessions
pale into nothingness before service
which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

Know that life is most joyful when you
neither attempt to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The "stories" we choose to tell about our past
are never what a video camera would have recorded.
We can tell a sad story or a happy story,
and neither story is either
more accurate or "better" than the other story.
The difference is that one story causes us to suffer,
while the other brings us joy. I choose joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi

No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever man might build, could never
express or reflect more than he was.
He could record neither more nor less
than he had learned of life.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell,
it is simply purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln