Quotes About Quiet

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, in the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

the quiet degradation of the human soul is more horrible than all the barricades and slaughter in the world.

music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.

You never come closer to owning the whole world than when you wake up before everyone else. There

The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.

But I am so afraid of disturbing this fragile silence.

I feel very peaceful.

If you actually hang out in the countryside, which I did, it's actually quite peaceful.

My heart is so peaceful.

I live 10 miles outside of Bath, where there are about 10 houses. So it's nice and peaceful and quiet. Keeps your feet on the ground, basically.

On all the peaks lies peace.

That,' he confessed aloud, 'was as ludicrous a case of mutual ineptitude as the gods of slapstick ever engineered. We both deserve to be tickled to death by small green centipedes. Well... if you keep quiet about it, I will.

A quite conscience makes one a quite reassuring.

Sometimes, silence has a power that can never defeated.

The real hero doesn't say that he is one.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Now I've done and said all I can do and say. I've come to the end of my personality, and now if I want anything it's peace, quiet. The ability, the opportunity to stay in my room and just stagger on. I suppose what I want, in a way, is death.

It was quiet in the room. Only the clock ticked on in the remorseless, mechanical minutes that men have made for themselves to measure away the joy and sadness of their earthly lives.

Throughout our marriage, we would go for weeks without exchanging more than perfunctory communications, sharing little but the bewildered quiet. And you think that I am lonely now? Heavens. I wish I'd listened to Chekhov, or had read him then: "If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!