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Quotes About Quiet

Coming from the U.K., you realize how quiet England is, and as soon as you get to America, it's really big and brash and loud out here, and South by Southwest was the epitome of that.
~ Ben Howard
I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.
~ Nithya Menen
It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.
~ Vikas Swarup, Q & A
Best *sometimes it is best not to speakbut just gaze silentlyinto the infinity of your own soul_____________________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015"The Poetic Assassin
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.
~ Roman Payne
We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude.In my fear to be alone, I distracted myself away from the deep beauty of my own solitude.
~ Scott Stabile
It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...
~ Oksana Rus
In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
~ Dar Williams
Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.
~ Natalie J. Damschroder
He'd gone broody & quiet, as if considering something major. Then boom—Good-bye Broody Brady, hello Lovesick Nutcase.
~ Natalie J. Damschroder
Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. She discerns, it may be, such a hopeless task before her.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
What, are you totally psycho? I shouted. Maybe I am! he screamed back at me. Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe I'm that quiet guy who suddenly goes nuts and then you find half the neighborhood in his freezer. I gotta admit, that one stumped me for a second - but only for a second. Which half? I asked. Huh? Which half of the neighborhood? Could you make it the people on the other side of Avenue T, because I never really liked them anyway.
~ Neal Shusterman
Why did they call them sneakers if it was so hard to sneak in them?)
~ Neal Shusterman
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang--they didn't even go out with a whimper. They went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.
~ Neal Shusterman
In the evening streamed down the radiant sun, That great eye which stares from the inquisitive sky. From behind the window that scattered its bright rays It seemed to gaze upon our long, quiet dinners, Spreading wide its candle-like reflections On the frugal table-cloth and the serge curtains.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.
~ Charles Bukowski
the best part was pulling down the shades stuffing the doorbell with rags putting the phone in the refrigerator and going to bed for 3 or 4 days. and the next best part was nobody ever missed me.
~ Charles Bukowski
Don't talk to me or bother me and I won't bother you. All right?
~ Charles Bukowski
it's necessary for me sometimes just to be alone and quiet and doing nothing. - my telephone
~ Charles Bukowski
Nobody bother us, we bother nobody.
~ Charles Bukowski
The best way to think is not at all
~ Charles Bukowski