Top 125 Tranquillity Quotes & Sayings

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

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

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

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

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

There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.

I received many offers - namely from Real Madrid, Manchester United, and Milan - but I preferred the tranquillity of playing for Fiorentina.

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

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.

I have settled down in this border area; I am trying to find distinct standards of shape, and I long to experience, formulate, and evoke this dark, heavy, tranquillity.

Slavery has become so engrafted into the policy of the Southern States, that it cannot be eradicated without tearing up by the roots their happiness, tranquillity, and prosperity.

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

Fishing gives me peace, tranquillity. And also, as a forward player, it helps me with my eyes.

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.

I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in tranquillity but perception recollected in interiority.

In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!

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.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

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

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.

The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity.

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

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

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.

Walk in the narrow streets after midnight under moonlight! Tranquillity is like a sugar for the mind; you think better in the silence of empty spaces!

Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquillity. Victory and defeat alike were sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.

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.

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.

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.

I'm enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

With respect to my religious sentiments, I have the firmest assurance and tranquillity. I have faithfully endeavoured to improve the faculties and opportunities God has given me, and I am perfectly easy about the consequences.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Power rests in tranquillity.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

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.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

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.

I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.

I am a public figure, but there are limits. I have the right to some tranquillity.

Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquillity for an apparent temporary advantage.

Far out of sight forever stands the sea, Bounding the land with pale tranquillity.

tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.