Quotes About Quietness

I went to visit Alcatraz years ago when I was on tour with the Pistols, and I really liked the atmosphere of the place. I genuinely, really, thoroughly enjoyed the whole morning there. I just liked the quietness and stillness of what is basically a cruel prison complex. I still found some kind of joy in that. That's how I am.

Nothing beats the majestic silence.

When I was a kid, I was super shy.

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadness, the deeper and more unerringly the new will penetrate into us, the better we shall acquire it, the more it will be our fate, and then one day in the future it 'takes place' we shall feel related and close to it in our inmost hearts. And that is necessary.

I only wanted to advise you also, to grow quietly and seriously throughout your development too; you cannot disturb it more violently than if you look to the outside and from the outside expect a response to questions that only your innermost feeling at your quietest hour can possibly answer.

So still and silent that they clash with the crowd in their very immobility; standing noisy in their silence; harsh as a cry of terror in their quietness.

Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation.

On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless.

It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.

When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what's left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are

As pessoas mais caladas e submissas são muitas vezes capazes da violência mais repentina e inesperada, pois quando perdem o controle, elas o perdem por inteiro!

I don't really like being in the centre of attention.

The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing.

Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

With virtue and quietness one may conquer the world.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.