Quiet Quotes

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

~ Blaise Pascal

To imbibe so much quiet is to become the music inside it.

~ Aditya Bhaskara

I fear that moments of quietude are on the endangered list, right behind solitude.

~ Nanette L. Avery

Solitude is very different from a ’time-out’ from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors – in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.

~ Charles Frazier

Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her felicity. Such moments come rarely in any life, but when they do come they are inexpressibly wonderful - as if the finite were for a second infinity - as if humanity were for a space uplifted into divinity - as if all ugliness had vanished, leaving only flawless beauty.

~ L.m. Montgomery

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

~ Patrick Lindsay

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

I love to close my eyes a moment and think of the land outside, white under the mingled snow and moonlight--the heaps of stones by the roadside white--snow in the furrows. Mon Dieu! How quiet and how patient!

~ Katherine Mansfield

I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

~ Pico Iyer

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.

~ Ray Bradbury

These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to leave something rather than take it.

~ Sarah Dessen

Jim looks out the car window with his nose pressed to the glass. Sometimes he pretends to be asleep. Not because he is tired, but because he needs to be quiet.

~ Rachel Joyce

I keep forgetting how important it is to just be still sometimes. Without a phone, or a TV, or a friend. Alone. Quiet. Connected to nothing, and everything, all at once. Undistracted

~ Scott Stabile

The world is too quiet without you nearby.

~ Lemony Snicket

The human race is a letdown, Ernest — a bad, bad letdown. And I’m disgusted with it. It thinks it’s progressed, but it hasn’t. It thinks it’s risen above the primeval slime, but it hasn’t. It’s wallowing in it. It’s still clinging to us, clinging to our hair and to our eyes and to our souls. We’ve invented a few things that make noises, but we haven’t invented one big thing that creates quiet. Endless, peaceful quiet. Something to pull over us like a gigantic eiderdown, something to deaden the sound of our emotional yellings and screechings and suffocate our psychological confusions.

~ Noël Coward

We love the night and its quiet, and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.

~ Fitz-James O'brien

it is the deep-black-sky quiet time of night, which is the halfway time between the sun setting and the sun rising when even the night animals are quiet—as if they, like day animals, take a break in the middle of their work to rest.

~ Alexandra Fuller

Has there ever been a night where you didn’t feel safe? Maybe you felt you were being watched? Or you couldn’t close your eyes for fear of the unknown? If, for only a moment, you let your guard down and hear a sound—unidentified and quiet—maybe it was all in your head.Never let your guard down.

~ Mandi Lynn

Yet today we make room for a remarkably narrow range of personality styles. We’re told that to be great is to be bold, to be happy is to be sociable.

~ Susan Cain

I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I enjoyed writing. Perhaps it was because I hardly heard the sound of my own voice. My written words were my voice, speaking, singing, ... I was there on the page

~ Jenny Moss

People like you don’t go mad, Vi. They’re quiet on the outside and loud on the inside and sane as the day is long

~ April Genevieve Tucholke

My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him

~ Carole Glickfeld

It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

~ Robert W. Service

The dead speak to those who listen. Be quieter than even them.

~ Kerri Maniscalco

What are you? Do you know? What you are is you're always trying to smooth everything over. What you are is always trying to be moderate. What you are is never telling the truth if you think it's going to hurt somebody's feelings. What you are is you're always compromising. What you are is always complacent. What you are is always trying to find the bright side of things. The one with the manners. The one who abides everything patiently. The one with ultimate decorum. The boy who never breaks the code.

~ Philip Roth

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

~ John Bunyan

She listened to the soft splashing sound when the water met the bank. It took just a few moments before she was able to completely fade out the smell of pollution and inhaled the salty air. The soft breeze mingled with the swooshing and splashing of the waves, with the rustling of grass, the tictac as long undressed twigs of the tree met each other, composing a gentle melody like wooden wind-chimes. The whole concert of nature calmed her down like nothing had ever been able to.

~ Jessica Werner

Maybe it’s the quiet,” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.

~ Jay Woodman

Here's to those who love the quiet, but thrive in chaos.

~ Verscon

Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him.

~ Ann Brashares

It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.

~ Fennel Hudson

And here I am sitting again, yes, sitting again by this faithful lamp, feeling indescribably serene and unhurried. I shall travel this day's path quite calmly and just take a little holiday—my eyes and head are slightly overstressed and overstrained. One must have the patience to do a little less.

~ –Etty Hillesum

The quietness here had an agreement with dust, neither settled.

~ Brian Catling

I believe I've come to understand something. Love isn't always big and dramatic. It's big, it's deep, but it's also quiet and calm.

~ Ashlyn Macnamara

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

~ Madeleine L'engle

You worry me, Mags, so self-contained and quiet. Hazelton would not have been my choice for you.Why not?He's a man who dwells in the shadows and appears to like it there. You have enough shadows of your own.Maybe he sees me as I really am because shadows don't deter him.

~ Grace Burrowes