Quiet Quotes

Quiet is here and all in me. (Dress of White Silk)

~ Richard Matheson

It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

~ Khaled Hosseini

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

~ Jessie Douglas Kerruish

An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police were pursuing a fugitive from justice who ran into the public library. Uniformed police surrounded the building, and the library director was notified that only unobtrusive plainclothesmen were entering the building. Their instructions: “When you find him, overpower him. Quietly.” It was done, and only a few people in the crowded building saw a handcuffed man being ushered past the checkout counter. “See,” one librarian remarked quietly to an amazed person, “that’s what happens when you don’t pay your book fines.

~ Ray B. Browne

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

~ Carl Hiaasen

I never speak in silence.

~ Anthony T Hincks

She found herself too visible in silence, exposed in the quiet of reflection.

~ Tracey Lindberg

Sometimes, there's no one around to tell you to be quiet... to be very, very quiet. Sometimes you need to be quiet when you're all alone.

~ Jay Asher

These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.

~ Samantha Hunt

The classroom fell quiet, a long heavy silence that roared in Roy's ears like a train.

~ Carl Hiaasen

Silent is an anagram of listen.

~ Johnny Rich

This forest silence improves anyone.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

~ Carla H. Krueger

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

~ Jasper Fforde

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

~ John Graves

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

~ Susan Marsh

She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that quiet observation was the key to knowing a place, perhaps even the key to life.

~ Thomas H. Cook

If she'd just kept her mouth shut, she would have been perfect, but no...

~ Jennifer Crusie

Silence is best reserved for the fearful and foolish.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It’s scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.

~ Tina Fey

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

~ Ishmael Beah

It's quiet in the car, in a good way for once. No words, no music. Silence seems right. I roll down the windows and lean my head against the door frame, listening to the wind rush by and smelling the pine trees. I watch the stars materialize, like someone is dimming the switch on the night sky so each shining dot grows brighter and brighter.

~ Jennifer Salvato Doktorski

Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.

~ Nikki Rosen

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

~ Janet Frame

I thought it would be quieter here.” [Anna] hadn’t meant to say anything, but the noise startled her. “The wind in the trees,” Bran said. “And there are some birds that stay year-round. Sometimes when the wind is still and the cold is upon us, the quiet is so deep you can feel it in your bones.

~ Patricia Briggs

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

~ Tim O'brien

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I've always thought it would be nice to have the house to myself for a while. This place gets so loud all theme and there are always so many people in it. But I guess I'm grateful for all the noise and chaos. I don't know if I want to be alone in the quiet with my thoughts these days.

~ Keary Taylor

There is a moon,that rests in the quiet cornersof a lover’s lips.

~ Sanober Khan

my lovefor youwill always belike a mountain stream.quiet. persistent. continuous.

~ Sanober Khan

Good and quiet do not connote weakness.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

He was a loving father, but he did his loving in private. Quietly, he would tell his daughter to drive safely. On her wedding day, when he walked her down the aisle, he'd whisper the words to her. But today, above the noise, he would have to shout it.

~ Debra Anastasia

A high school student wrote to ask, What was the greatest event in American history? I can't say. However, I suspect that like so many great events, it was something very simple and very quiet with little or no fanfare (such as someone forgiving someone else for a deep hurt that eventually changed the course of history). The really important great things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always in the wings. That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and the superficial.

~ Fred Rogers

there have been morningsso quiet and tenderlike a poem, on Thursday's lipsthat I wonderedif I'd been kissed at all...

~ Sanober Khan

The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you, it's me.

~ Criss Jami

It is quiet at home today. I got my wisdom tooth extracted.

~ Andy Paula

Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.

~ Chris Matakas

And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy.

~ E.l. James

Because there are a million thoughts that never sleepand a million more that wake up as each second passes by...And it's insanity insidebut I can no longer keep quietOh, I can't speak as wellI need to writeI have to write...

~ Sanhita Baruah

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

~ H. Beam Piper