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Quotes About Quiet

kind of warm silence.
~ John Steinbeck
There was no talk at supper. The quiet was disturbed only by the slup of soup and gnash of chewing, and his father waved his hand to try to drive the moths away from the chimney of the kerosene lamp.
~ John Steinbeck
The entirety of our mind, on the other hand, is by its very nature deep, vast, intrinsically still and quiet, like the depths of the ocean.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a working man, a quiet, blue-collar dude.
~ Ice T
I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.
~ Kurt Vile
The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That's the best gift for Father's Day, just leave them alone.
~ Terry Crews
Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.
~ Tad Williams
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.
~ Ovid
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
~ Unknown
I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
~ Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
~ Albert Einstein
Parents sleeping = You being quiet as a mouse. You sleeping = Parents decide to vacuum for 2 hours.
~ Unknown
until custom had changed the colour of the curtains, made the clock keep quiet, brought
~ Marcel Proust
Down home, in our quiet backwoods area, it looks like an untroubled life.
~ Marcus Luttrell
Axe was a quiet man, six foot four, with piercing blue eyes and curly hair. He was smart and the best Trivial Pursuit player I ever saw. I loved talking to him because of how much he knew. He would come out with answers that would have defied the learning of a Harvard professor.
~ Marcus Luttrell
Nemoj ništa govoriti,
~ Unknown
I love silence but I fear emptiness.
~ Marge Piercy
all about him stretched the lush green countryside in which there were to every acre a thousand hiding-places, deep and wide and quiet enough to hold so small and worthless a thing as a single unit of mortal clay. "I
~ Margery Allingham
Don't laugh at the spinsters,…for often very tender, tragical romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns," Alcott pleads.
~ Margo Jefferson
There are few things so lonely as watching while others sleep;
~ Maria McCann
Quiet. My body melted heavily into the chair; I heard a cart go up the street. The room grew suddenly big with meaning. Something was about to happen, was happening: each object in the room seemed perfect of its kind, its kind being just its one self.
~ Maria McCann
Send me a whisper, but one so dim that only my soul could hear.
~ Unknown
The world's an orphans' home. Shallwe never have peace without sorrow?without pleas of the dying forhelp that won't come. Oquiet form upon the dust, I cannotlook and yet I must.
~ Marianne Moore