Quotes About Quiet

Each in his narrow cell forever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,Or busy housewife ply her evening care.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

Their daughter Norleen was upstairs asleep, or perhaps she was illicitly enjoying an after-hours session with the new television she'd received on her birthday the week before. If so, her violation went undetected by her parents in the living room, where all was quiet. The neighborhood outside the house was quiet, too, as it was day and night.

Take my advice, as someone who dabbles in tales of extraordinary doom, and walk away from all of this madness. There are enough fatalities of a mundane sort. Find a quiet place and wait for one of them to carry you off.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

Marriages were more fragile and complicated than she had ever imagined. Trouble came in quiet, unexpected ways. Things had to be said over and over again, all existing agreements renewed and clarified.

serenity (shamatha)

Audre plopped down on Cece's lap. "Try chocolate meditation. You stick a Hershey's Kiss in your mouth and sit quietly, letting it melt. No chewing. It's about mindfulness.

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind.

The dead should be allowed to rest in peace.

One of the hardest things for a teacher is to know when to keep quiet and when to let go. It is a terrible thing to hold someone back from success, or to insist on sharing credit, or to tie someone to your apron strings. We need to have faith that we have done all we can, and then we need to kick our birds out of the nest.

They that govern the most make the least noise.

I don't exhaust myself by reading or listening to the noise around me.

I don't like holidays. And I don't like crowds of people. I don't like noise.

It's hard to find a place where you're out of earshot of some kind of noise.

I love to sit down and have my drink in the afternoon. It's so lovely if there's no noise, no calamities, no children that have to be attended to.

We have always been a family that's given back. We just don't make a lot of noise about it.

There were times when I just couldn't be around noise, and people talking in the same room would have been too much for me.

I do like my own space. I like to just block the noise out after a while.

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room. I try to keep the noise in front of me.