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Quotes About Quiet

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.
~ Robyn Davidson
Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
~ Colm Toibin
I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.
~ Jason Day
I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
~ Harry Nilsson
Calm can solve all issues.
~ Pope Shenouda III
Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.
~ Chirlane McCray
More than love I seek peace
~ Gregory C. Warner
A few weeks ago my uncle came over to borrow my dad's socket set and when he asked my dad how he was my dad said oh unexceptional. Living quietly with my disappointments. And how are you
~ Miriam Toews
Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.
~ Mitch Albom
Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
~ Mitch Albom
Miracles happen quietly every day—in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score. But now and then, a miracle is declared to the world. And when that happens, things change
~ Mitch Albom
Suddenly it was terribly quiet, as if the earth itself were too stunned to breathe. I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn't mean you aren't hearing it. Frankie
~ Mitch Albom
I am not bothered by the silence. For all the noise I make with my friends, I am still not comfortable talking about my feelings in front of others—especially not classmates. I could sit in the quiet for hours if that is what the class demanded.
~ Mitch Albom
The air went dead. All sounds disappeared. It was like that T. S. Eliot poem, "the still point of the turning world," as if the entire planet held its breath.
~ Mitch Albom
Bug just because I was quiet didn't man I had n opinions. In my head I always had a witty retort.
~ Mitchell Kriegman
Saeed admired his foreman, the foreman having that sort of quiet charisma that young men often gravitate towards, part of which lay in the native man's not seeming the least interested in being admired.
~ Mohsin Hamid
It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.
~ Murakami Haruki
but the child is silent, looking as though he would rather understand than speak.
~ Nadeem Aslam
Solitude opens all closed doors, even those nailed shut.
~ Nancy Wood
The heavy mantle of collective forgetfulness seemed to descend around us the day the weapons went quiet. In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The calm before the storm.
~ Carly Phillips
The sea can smack the rocks like a hand smacking a cheek. It can hiss or gurgle or even kiss. But when it wants, it can go quiet. 'And then', said Anya Rothrock, 'you can hear the voices of the drowned'.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
It was so quiet. I thought those two women had kidnapped you. Did that make you sad? His eyes twinkled, and a smile tickled the corners of his mouth. Dammit! Why did she have to look at his mouth? That made her think of that amazing kiss, and that put a little extra giddy-up in her pulse. It sure did. I didn't want to stock shelves and slice bologna and still keep everyone from killing each other. She smiled sweetly.
~ Carolyn Brown
The young detective smiled, glad that everything had worked out so successfully. Her gaze wandered along the stately cloister of Heath Castle. With the afternoon sun sinking low, the shadowy passageway had never looked more beautiful. It was peaceful and quiet, and nothing was further from Nancy's thoughts than a new mystery.
~ Carolyn Keene