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Quotes About Quietude

That clean but lonely feeling when there are no other cars. The traffic lights changing just for you.
~ Don DeLillo
Era una quietud que yo conocía bien: así se encerraba en sí misma una casa cuando alguien moría.
~ Donna Tartt
Silence, like madness, is only comparative.
~ Unknown
E tranquilidade era aquilo, aquela quietude sob a qual a vida palpitava
~ Unknown
Silêncio. Um centro negro e tranquilo absorvendo o caos para a sua quietude
~ Madeline Hunter
El silencio es necesario para aprender cosas sobre uno mismo.
~ Unknown
It's good to shut up sometimes.
~ Marcel Marceau
Suviše je jaka i isklju?iva, kao i ja, samo ne žuri da to pokaže, tiha je i uporna, uvjerena da ?e biti onako kako ona ho?e. Njen otpor nije pobuna ve? strpljivo zauzimanje položaja, ne za trenutak, ve? za dugo vrijeme.
~ Meša Selimovi?
Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To remain silent for only one minute is a serious punishment for a gabby!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something.
~ Melissa Marr
Only death can calm the mind completely.
~ Unknown
Men seek retreats for themselves in country places, on beaches and mountains, and you yourself are wont to long for such retreats, but that is altogether unenlightened when it is possible at any hour you please to find a retreat within yourself. For nowhere can a man withdraw to a more untroubled quietude than in his own soul.12
~ Unknown
Men seek retreats for themselves in country places, on beaches and mountains, and you yourself are wont to long for such retreats, but that is altogether unenlightened when it is possible at any hour you please to find a retreat within yourself. For nowhere can a man withdraw to a more untroubled quietude than in his own soul.
~ Unknown
Leer por puro placer, por la hermosa quietud que te envuelve cuando resuenan en la cabeza las palabras de un autor.
~ Paul Auster
A Kiowa's first and last resort was courage. A Kiowa did not beg or plead or appease. She knew at the bitter end she could starve away the despair, deny any sustenance to surrender. She wiped her face again and climbed up into the wagon. Ausay gya kii, gyao boi tol. Prepare for a hard winter, prepare for hard times. She braided her hair as if for battle. And so she became quiet and stilled.
~ Paulette Jiles
Nadia listened in perfect, ratlike silence.
~ Paulette Jiles
I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”
~ Job 3:26
For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”
~ Isaiah 30:15