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Quotes About Quiet

Don't want to do a thing, Ran, do we, from now and on till evermore.
~ Eudora Welty
It was like, oh, we've found the still, dead center of things. This is the quiet middle place where nothing can be done.
~ Andrew Martin
Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear! Mistaken long, I sought you then In busy companies of men; Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow. Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude.
~ Andrew Marvell
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
~ Andrew Murray
There are fewer and fewer monsters? And I? What am I? Who's shouting? The birds? The woman in a sheepskin jacket and blue dress? The roses from Nazair? How quiet! How empty. What emptiness. Within me.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Music she understood.  Music she lived with, music was her soul, her crutch, her quiet times, her rowdy times.  Music she breathed.
~ Angela Verdenius
now be quiet, I'm going to be sick.
~ Angie Sage
Castle wall. He was surprised how peaceful and quiet the Castle was. He had somehow expected the upheavals of the evening to show, but it was past midnight by now and a fresh blanket of snow covered the deserted courtyards and old stone buildings.
~ Angie Sage
That was the way life was: it lay so quiet, so still that you put your fingers out to touch it, to stroke it. Then it leapt up and struck you full in the face so that you spun about and spun about, gasping. The flames leapt up all around, rising by inches every minute, rising in rings.
~ Anita Desai
He was one of those quiet, sickly bairns. I was a nursery nurse before I married and I knew the sort. Given to asthma and feeling sorry for himself. It didn't help that he was an only child and his mother loved the bones of him.
~ Ann Cleeves
Mary hadn't said a word. She'd seemed frozen. It had been as if she were holding her breath.
~ Ann Cleeves
The hearing test, which involved sitting in a quiet room listening to noises of various pitch played through headphones, confirmed the worst. I had no hearing in my left ear whatsoever.
~ David Hewson
I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.
~ Clive Sinclair
I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.
~ Wole Soyinka
When I was seven or eight, whenever I was getting too rowdy at night, my parents would give me a maths workbook to work on to quieten me down.
~ Terence Tao
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
~ Laura Linney
I just love my privacy.
~ Ann-Margret
I want to maintain the privacy and remain low-profile.
~ Fala Chen
I like my privacy.
~ Freddie Ljungberg
I'm very private.
~ Bethenny Frankel
I'm so secluded, and I'm so private.
~ Dr. Dre
I'm a private kind of person.
~ Josh Holloway
I'm one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.
~ Tom Bateman