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Quotes About Quietness

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength
~ Lynn Austin
To trust God is to trust His timing. To trust God is to trust His way. God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way. In the quietness of all that doesn't feel right, this truth does.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.
~ Unknown
Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.
~ Robert Cheeke
Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
~ Unknown
Shyness is..
~ Unknown
Alone all day, Juniper would remember the animals and places he loved, and hold them in his own heart before the great Heart that made them. He was learning to find quietness inside himself. He was learning to pray.
~ Unknown
Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
~ Unknown
In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.
~ Unknown
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
~ Unknown
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will even cook up Greek tragedy, those born into misery, destined to die in misery. But you, my bride of quietness, you will craft nothing less than epic with your life. Out of all of them, your story will be the one to last.
~ Marisha Pessl
If a cone had dropped on velvet needles, if a star had lain a silver track across the sky, if the dead had turned in their graves - I swear, I would have heard it, that's how silent it all was.
~ Martha Grimes
Oh, if a man were so to regard himself and his position, and attended to its duties alone, how rich in good works would he be in a short time, so quietly and secretly that no one would notice it except God alone!
~ Martin Luther
But what he really liked about Marie Carter was her quietness. She had a quiet voice and a quiet nature.
~ Martina Cole
We're the only two people here!' 'That's not the point. It is still a library. If you are in a cathedral, you are quiet because you are in a cathedral, not because other people are there. It's the same with a library.
~ Matt Haig
Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. "All profound things," he wrote, "are preceded and attended by Silence.
~ Michael Finkel
I can hear beer cans softly pattering down on the pavement, then nothing.
~ Michael Paterniti
O que o acordou foi o silêncio.
~ Unknown
I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.
~ Mindy Kaling
It wasn't until later that I realized Paul's quietness was a result of his confidence. He didn't need to shout to be heard.
~ Mindy Kaling
I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quiet, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.
~ Mindy Kaling
Silence is a great wisdom.
~ Unknown
It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world.
~ Muso Soseki