Quotes About Quiet

Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity.

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

Necesité a Dios para aquietar todas las voces, menos la de Él

Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.

All life has emptiness at it's core it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.

and then I scream loud enough to wake the dead... but it doesn't.

If God had died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement.

Silence is safe.

Highly skilled people are less noisy, and they also show less bias.

In diesem Moment begriff er, daß niemand den Verstand benutzen wollte. Menschen wollten Ruhe. Sie wollten essen und schlafen, und sie wollten, daß man nett zu ihnen war. Denken wollten sie nicht.

It's rough being without a librarian for a whole month, isn't it?" Starr Lackawanna said. "Yes!" we all said.

The water is surprisingly warm. When she dives in, she feels herself enveloped. Reemerging, she leans back, lifts her feet, and floats on her back. Above her the sky is dark black, an endless stretch dotted with tiny stars. The sound of night, the thick, rich quiet - and the hooting, every few minutes, of an owl.

But Drew liked the simplicity of her downsized life, this quieter existence. One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, necessarily.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

Sitting hens are temperamental and should not be disturbed by people or animals.

Solitude is a powerful thing. People who can't use solitude always have to find some kind of bullshit to do.

Between a book's covers there may be passion, bile, mayhem, or murder, but in the quiet spaces where it awaits its fate (either acceptance of indifference) all is calm.

Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.

somewhere isolated.

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

Here's a card I'm holding. Finland. There's where you first got interested in Kang, isn't it? He must have been using it as some sort of base. Quiet, out-of-the-way place, where people mind their own business. I'll bet you can go for long walks with no one else around. What did he do to catch your attention? Or did the Finns alert you?

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.

solitude was bliss for now.