Quotes About Quiet

Silence doesn't mean I am tired sometimes it says I want to be alone .

The best way to answer a fool is to keep mute.

Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted. We should all learn just to be quiet at times.

Prayer is more like listening than anything else...being quiet in God's presence, waiting on God until we know what to do.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The exceptional happens quietly, inside the mundane.

Solitude is the nest of thoughts.

she needed the quiet solitude found when the rest of the world was still asleep.

Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

I asked him for a cigarette and he obliged, lighting it for me without a word, without meeting my eye. The quiet ones do this. They exert control by giving nothing out, and it's this blankness that makes them unpredictable, as dangerous as the loud ones are obvious.

For the next several minutes nothing much happened, biscuit wise.

We got to lie in bed quietly every morning, instead of getting up for breakfast with Dad. Life had finally gotten back to normal. Thank goodness that whole school thing was over and done with.

And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings...

We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time's waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years. I had a thought for no one's but your ears: That you were beautiful, and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love; That it had all seemed happy, and yet we'd grown As weary-hearted as that hollow moon

And her hair was a folded flower And the quiet of love in her feet.

Only in rapid and subtle thought, or in faint accents heard in the quiet of the mind, can the thought of the spirit come to us but little changed; for a mind, that grasps objects simultaneously according to the degree of its liberation, does not think the same thought with the mind that sees objects one after another.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

He [Earl Scruggs] was really cool because he was very quiet, and he wouldn't say much, but then he would come out with a quip that was like so perfect and so brilliant, very smart.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that's what I admire most.

[Introverts,] the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. So I wish you the best of all possible journeys and the courage to speak softly.