Quotes on Quiet

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.

He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.

...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

Anne’s horizons had closed in since the night she had sat there after coming home from Queen’s; but if the path set before her feet was to be narrow she knew that flowers of quiet happiness would bloom along it. The joys of sincere work and worthy aspiration and congenial friendship were to be hers; nothing could rob her of her birthright of fancy or her ideal world of dreams. And there was always the bend in the road!

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

How many Sundays - how many hundreds of Sundays like this - lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn't wind my spring.

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.