Despair has its own calms.
Bram Stoker

I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
John C. McGinley

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
Pierre Corneille

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
John Russell

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
David Hockney

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
Barry Cornwall

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
Walter Savage Landor