Quotes About Quiet

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

We love the night and it's quiet.

i'm going to love again so quietlyno one will know i'm home.

You ask why I love you. For this: You are a minute of quiet in a loud shouting world.

When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly, as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life, and began to think over what was best to be done. I am thinking still, and as yet have come to no definite conclusion.

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

I have never been attracted to a person's pretentious demeanor. A gaudy surface often obscures a hidden agenda. Rather, I trust the quiet, unassuming person much more than one who constantly needs to remind others of his accomplishments and embellish them. —EMPEROR RODERICK CORRINO

Hay soledad en el hogar sin bulla, sin noticias, sin verde, sin niñez.

Huoneesta kuuluva Piersin ääni oli hiljainen mutta veitsenterävä. (C. J. Sansom: Ilmestys, suom. Ilkka Rekiaro)

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

It was difficult to hold Broca's brain without wondering whether in some sense Broca was still in there—his wit, his skeptical mien, his abrupt gesticulations when he talked, his quiet and sentimental moments.

Solo el silencio es grandioso; todo lo demás es debilidad. ALFRED DE VIGNY

The sleeping style of each organism is exquisitely adapted to the ecology of the animal. It is conceivable that animals who are too stupid to be quiet on their own initiative are, during periods of high risk, immobilized by the implacable arm of sleep.

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths—not always. Sometimes their breathing is hoarse, sometimes it rattles, sometimes they cry out to you, Don't let me go! Even the old sometimes say, Don't let me go! As if you were able to stop them! Funerals are quiet with pretty flowers. And oh, what gorgeous boxes they pack them away in!

Oh, God, can't we stop now? Finally? Please let us. It's so quiet here, now.

Simple implies both ease of operation and a direct connection with the type of elemental pleasures that we go away on holiday to experience - the sun streaming through the windows, for example, the texture of a rug underfoot, or basic peace and quiet.

He didn't try to think, didn't care to remember, but wished only to lose himself in the peace and quiet

Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.

There was something pleasant about an empty classroom. Of course, as any teacher would point out, one nice thing was that there were no children in it.