Quotes About Quiet

What can be quieter than standing alone in a crowd of strangers?

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors. Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

So what i took as a yes from him was in actuality more of a quiet surrender, not much an acceptance as an act of relinquishment by one too weary to decide, and far too tired to believe.

So that's why Ivy always used canvas bags . It wasn't because she was especially eco-minded. They were quiet.

day sleeper. solicitors will be eaten.

fallen asleep. I

Now, hush. We do best when we doan talk.

Her growing certainty that she was withholding some essential part of herself had filled her with quiet desperation.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

May they rest in eternal peace.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people around her could not respect it.

There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

The quietest of people have the loudest of minds.

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.

A quiet fool is half a sage.

McGahern's voice came in: 'I am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything

Great cloud masses boiled up, immense in their quiet majesty. They seemed to drink up all the noise below, even the sound of the sea. It was the height of summer and there was anger in the rays of the sun.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.