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Quotes About Quiet

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
~ Clement Attlee
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
~ A. Lee Martinez
I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.
~ Alexander Smith
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
~ Babe Ruth
He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words.
~ David Beckham
Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
~ F. Murray Abraham
Just before dawn I have the world all to myself.
~ Terri Guillemets
Sometimes it's harder to attain inner silence than outer silence. The dog stopped barking and the kids have gone to bed, but your mind has a lot to talk about and it knows you can't pretend you're not at home.
~ Terri Guillemets
If you can't hear the angels, try quieting the static of worry.
~ Terri Guillemets
La solitude n'aime pas être surprise en déshabillé et sème autour d'elle toutes sortes d'obstacles.
~ Theophile Gautier
Wer stark ist, kann sich erlauben leise zu sprechen.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
We can cherish the quiet moments. We can live day to day." Enid
~ Theresa Weir
And, as a confessing introvert, I absolutely love shopping without people around.
~ Thom S. Rainer
If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to you for those minutes. Enjoy your blessed aloneness for a brief season.
~ Thom S. Rainer
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There was silence deep as death,And the boldest held his breath,For a time.
~ Thomas Campbell
Thought will not work except in silence.
~ Thomas Carlyle
It is absolutely indispensable, for most people, especially for the like of me, so thin-skinned and so confused at being, to get into perfect seclusion of mind from time to time and to be well alone
~ Thomas Carlyle
I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.
~ Rose Namajunas
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
~ W. C. Fields
Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.
~ Alexander Ovechkin
You won't really see me at any events, any nightclubs.
~ Georgia Salpa