Quotes About Quiet

It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he at eighteen knew that it would take more than one person to make.

It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.

A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. but it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and don't try to hold him, that he cant escape from

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

In the afternoon when school was out and the last one had left with his little dirty snuffling nose, instead of going home I would go down the hill to the spring where I could be quiet and hate them.

I am too old for this. I was born too old for it, and so I am sick to death for quiet.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

Perhaps this was what love was like after all- not the lurch of going over a humpback bridge, and not the incandescence of fireworks, just the quiet understanding that one should take a kind hand when it was offered, before all light was gone from the sky.

In the quiet of the garden then the robin shook his worm, and swallowed its life from the light into darkness with the quick indifference of a god.

This is homeroom," he'd said once. "If I were home, I'd still be sleeping. So keep quiet. I need a nap.

Some of the ways we found creativity – the brainstorm, for instance – seemed completely counter-intuitive to where I knew my best ideas came from. These came (and still do come) in the quiet moments on my own, when I wasn't trying, like during long flights, cycling or the shower.

Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.

When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

There are some things best contemplated in silence. Their proportions are so vast that speech cannot get around them.

Glory, battle, great momentsss, are where we give to the world. But we cannot give without receiving. We cannot share what we do not have inside. It is this quiet, the pause between breathsss, that makes us what we truly are. Gives us ssstrength for all our journeys.

She stayed as quiet as she could. This, she found, was the trick: you didn't have to react to each little thing. You could just exist. Let your mind simmer over a low fire.

Not exactly shy. I was—quiet." "Circumspect," Vivian says. "Watchful." Molly turns these words over in her mind. Circumspect? Watchful? Is she?

the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

This is the hour of the Shire-folk," declares Elrond, "when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.

The little pilgrims lay down side by side and slept quietly until the morning.

The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.

I knew I wasn't mad mad because I'd seen people in the grip of psychosis before, and that was madness as obvious as the taste of blood in the mouth. The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous.

I knew I wasn't mad mad because I'd seen people in the grip of psychosis before, and that was madness as obvious as the taste of blood in the mouth. The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.