Tranquillity Quotes

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

Peace, Death, Confusion

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

Peace, Happiness, Spiritual

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Here, Eagle, Base

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

Creative, Mankind, Seldom

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

Marriage, Happy, Lovely

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

Perfect, Place, Action

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

Life, Fear, Live

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

Human, Find, Cannot

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

Live, Eyes, Social

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

Down, Sea, Heaven

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

Life, Good, Friend

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.
Ariel Sharon

Peace, Future, Before

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

Words, Whole, Show

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

Nature, Time, Government

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

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.
Thomas Kincade

Faith, Beauty, Peace

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.
Emilia Clarke

Long, Find, Able

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

Peace, Religion, Nothing

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