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Quotes About Quietness

Silence does not need to be praised, as it will disturb it or add unnecessary noise.
~ Unknown
I stood there for a long time after he bumped his way over the turf and down the track, until the smell of his exhaust had faded into the trees and soil, and I could hear nothing but the buds. The air smelled like rain.
~ Nicola Griffith
A quiet mind is all you need.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
No me agrada esta calma, este silencio muerto, sin carne, puro hueso.
~ Unknown
Can you hear the silence? It's the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.
~ Patricia Briggs
One day, when I'd expressed surprise at that feigned carelessness, he'd told me you had to 'approach things gently and quietly or they pull away,
~ Patrick Modiano
The door sat still as a mountain, quiet and indifferent as the sea on a windless day.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There's a certain quixotic calm to an empty school hallway.
~ Paul Beatty
A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.
~ Per Petterson
For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.
~ Psalm 35:20
For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
~ Isaiah 18:4
It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
~ Lamentations 3:26
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.
~ 1 Timothy 2:11
but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in Godís sight.
~ 1 Peter 3:4