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Quotes About Quiet

And so long as we give ourselves to faith in him, with calm and quiet minds, he will not permit the wicked to injure us with impunity.
~ John Calvin
O take me from the busy crowd, I cannot bear the noise! For Nature's voice is never loud; I seek for quiet joys. The book I love is everywhere, And not in idle words; The book I love is known to all, And better lore affords.
~ John Clare
O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold And shut up green and open into gold.
~ John Clare
It was to have been a quiet evening at home. Home is the Busted Flush, 52-foot barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale.
~ John D. MacDonald
Focus your entire energy very quietly, very softly, on awakening and realization.
~ John de Ruiter
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.
~ John Donne
Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.
~ Matsuo Basho
I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
~ N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
~ Dean Koontz, Chase
She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too.
~ Kate Elliott
Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.
~ William J. Clinton
Even though New York may be a more inspiring city, I get more inspired thinking of L.A., in a way. My life there was so much more simple in mind, and quiet.
~ Aleksa Palladino
I live a pretty anonymous life.
~ Amos Lee
True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
~ Edward Frederick Halifax
By all means use some time to be alone.
~ Edward Young
It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.
~ Eileen Caddy
Still waters run deep.
~ Eileen Goudge
Alex, seated on her left, was one of those men who acted like he"d been issued a certain number of words at birth and didn"t want to run out. It took a little effort to get him talking
~ Eileen Wilks
a bitter sarcasm alternated with a quiet cult of memory.
~ Elena Ferrante
Biblioteket var hans tilfluktssted fra privatliv og offentlige oppgaver, fra verdens kjas og mas og samtidens uroligheter.
~ Antoine Compagnon
And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet.
~ Antonia Michaelis
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
~ Antonio Tabucchi