peacefulness

adj.

1. Undisturbed by strife, turmoil, or disagreement; tranquil: a peaceful hike through the forest. See Synonyms at calm.

2. Inclined or disposed to peace; peaceable: a peaceful solution to the dispute.

3. Not involving violence or employing force: a peaceful protest.

See Also: CALMNESS

1. (There was) an ease of mind that was like being alone in a boat at sea —Wallace Stevens

   This is the first line of Prologues to What is Possible, a poem studded with additional similes.

2. Had a certain peace, like a stone that wouldn’t roll any more —Paul Horgan
3. Inner serenity is a lot like grace under pressure except that it’s all going on inside where people might not notice and give you credit —Judith Viorst
4. Like a stone thrown into the smooth water of a spring, I had disturbed their peace —Mihail Lermontov
5. Like the course of the heavenly bodies, harmony in national life is a resultant of the struggle between contending forces —Justice Louis D. Brandeis

   See Also: AGREEMENT/DISAGREEMENT

6. A peace deep as death —Daniela Gioseffi
7. Peaceful as a breast —Kenneth Patchen
8. Peaceful as a church —Raymond Chandler
9. Peaceful as a leaf with its superhuman silence —Daniela Gioseffi
10. Peaceful as Socrates —Anon
11. Peaceful … like a child asleep —Phyllis Roberts
12. Peaceful, like being in a time machine —Lee Smith
13. Peaceful like New Year’s —Carlos Baker
14. Peaceful like warm Summer nights —Amy Lowell
15. Peace, like a mask, hides everything —Edwin Arlington Robinson
16. Peace, like charity, begins at home —Franklin D. Roosevelt

    See Also: COMPLAINTS, PATRIOTISM, REFORMS, SENSE

17. Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it —Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 21, 1944 speech to Foreign Policy Association
18. Peacemaking is hard … hard almost as war —Daniel Berrigan

    The simile comprises the title and first line of a poem.

    See Also: DIFFICULTY

19. Peace was over her … like a mantle —Madeleine L’Engle
20. Peace will, like a broken limb united, grow stronger for the breaking —William Shakespeare
21. [A vacation] quiet and pleasant and womblike as a slow bath in a tub of warm water —Harvey Swados
22. Restful as a Rembrandt background —George Ade
23. Rest like lizards on rocks —Etheridge Knight
24. (Maybe it will emerge,) serene and smiling, like Daniel from the lion’s den —Floyd K. Haskell, on tax reform, New York Times/Op-Ed, January 17, 1986
25. Serene as a snowman’s smile —Julie Hayden
26. Serene as jade buddhas —Marge Piercy
27. Soothing … as waves along a shore —John Gardner
28. Still and quiet, like a good conscience —Frank Swinnerton
29. Tranquility pushed their anxieties away, like a man finding a place for himself on a crowded bench —W. Somerset Maugham
30. Tranquilizing murmur [of voice] like the music of a dream —Elinor Wylie
31. Tranquilly like the rise and fall of sand dunes —Yukio Mishima