Quotes About Quietness

Suviše glasno? Šta je bilo suviše glasno? Samo tišina.

But now he said his thoughts aloud many times since there was no one that they could annoy.

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.

Words aren't necessary. They won't change anything.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.

On the ice, I feel like I can become a different person, and the darker dramatics, the Black Swan, is confident: she's free to do whatever she wants, and that attitude helps in my skating. The White Swan is, I feel, more what I'm actually like off the ice: I'm a lot quieter, and if someone tells me to do something, I'll just do it.

The soul that moves in the world of the senses and yet keeps the senses in harmony... finds rest in quietness

SONG OF QUIETNESS Drink deep, drink deep of quietness, And on the margins of the sea Remember not thine old distress Nor all the miseries to be. Calmer than mists, and cold As they, that fold on fold Up the dim valley are rolled, Learn thou to be.

You could hear a mouse fart.

Reacher said nothing.

completely deserted.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

El desconcertante descubrimiento de lo silencioso que es el destino cuando de repente estalla.

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.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

It's the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing

They sat so still that each of them might have been alone.

Gerdi didn't really understand.Cammy liked being quiet.She liked bingo.She wouldn't mind living in a cozy little hole,like a rabbit.

She was tranquil, but it was with the quietness of exhausted grief, not of resignation; and she looked back upon the past, and awaited the future, with a kind of out-breathed despair.

Everything was so quiet, as if the silence was listening.

The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

The careless violins and saxophones, the shrill rasping complaint of a child near by, the voice of the violet-hatted girl at the next table, all moved slowly out, receded, and fell away like shadowy reflections on the shining floor - and they two, it seemed to him, were alone and infinitely remote, quiet.

His normal state was silence.

Women live quietly, I said. However angry or broken a woman might get, she does not think about beating someone, does she?