Quotes About Quiet

For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache of mis-belonging. It was beautiful, this place, and it was savage. It swallowed you and made you a part of itself, or if you proved too inassimilable, it spit you out like the pit of a plum.

Tranquility in front of me. Calmness beside me. Stillness around me. Compassion inside me.

The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world.

the house and everyone in it lay in a sleep that would not be broken.

Quiet had a restful quality. In quiet, she could find peace.

You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.

The unpleasant things in life make so much noise that we forget the silent operation of the good. Evil is aggressive, rampant, but good is quiet, undemonstrative.

En la soledad no se encuentra más que lo que a la soledad se lleva.

There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better.

Faith is the quiet cousin of courage.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

You surprise me. I always thought you were a quiet one." "I am not quiet. It is simply that my husband is loud.

No one ever told you that when you became a parent, how much fun it was to watch them do the quietest things. Sleeping and thinking.

bal-cy-on (adjective). Calm, quiet, peaceful, undisturbed. I shan't look back upon these as halcyon days.

And then they left, and all was quiet, but it wasn't peaceful. Just empty.

Better to be a silent fool than a talkative one.

When I read 'Meadowland,' I could see the potential for a very internal, quiet story that could be powerful and emotional but also disturbing and dark.

I'm very private, not the interview type.

The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

shut off the bike,

Para qué más ruido afuera con el que llevábamos adentro!

silence usually taught him more than the company of others.

gatherings I would sit quietly in a corner, saying nothing. I looked and observed a good deal. I've always been that way and still am. I was anything but expansive. I was a loner—can't remember ever

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.