Quotes About Quietness

Perhaps she could use the sounds, punctuate them with some of the other birdsong she had taped, but the more she thought about it, the more convinced she was that sound was something to leave alone, that it was not the bulldozers nor the olive trees nor the buzzing strobe lights that needed attention, but the quietness itself.

Everyone is small at night.

I dream of a quiet man who explains nothing and defends nothing, but only knows where the rarest wildflowers are blooming, and who goes, and finds that he is smiling not by his own will. Sabbaths 1999 II

Night embraces the quiet dark sky Until it sparks alive with morning light

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

The world is too quiet without you nearby.

I try to go unnoticed. I don't watch the news or read what they say. I try to stay on the sidelines.

The quiet people just do their work.

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

I don't say too much. Quavo and Offset - I don't talk as much as they talk. I observe the scene.

I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.

that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that

When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

All friends and comfortable with each other have ceased to talk, each occupied in that wide quiet with his own thoughts.

Let the snake wait under his weed and the writing be of words, slow and quick, sharp to strike, quiet to wait, sleepless.

Let me this day arise in quietness With only thoughts of sinlessness, through which To look upon the world. Let me today Behold the world as You would have it be, Because I am as You created me.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

for? There was a moment of silence down below, and

These empty days. How do you spend them?

the susurrus slowly dying away to a vibrant silence.

THE GARDEN WAS QUIET. Beyond its walls no echo of footsteps could be heard above the soft incessant splash of the waterfall. The silence was planned, as everything in the garden was planned, though all seemed nature itself.

I like your silence, it the more shows off your wonder.