Quiet Quotes - Page 3

I am not sad anymore. I am not weak or tender or quiet like you remember because the second you said those words and closed that door, I sold my soul to the part of myself I had buried in order to love you, to let you touch every inch of my rotten body, for I wanted to be touchable and not so strange. Not so sad and tender, like I’ve always been, they say, so I changed. And then your glances and words throwing knives with no return about my change of habits and ways of living, being, and I nodded and smiled, dying silently a little bit inside.

Kate McGahan

Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering just five words, and only to guards: yes; no; please; thank you. "I am surprised," he wrote, "by the amount of respect this garners me. That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

Michael Finkel

The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.

Ann Rinaldi

Don't assume you are more creative or better than anyone, because some people with better stuffs are just pretending to be dumb for a while.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.

Ester Buchholz

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Rollo May

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

Jared Brock

The soul-sacred strength is calmness and confidence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

Joyce Rachelle

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Criss Jami

A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It's your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments give you access to areas of your brain which allows you to function proficiently.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

Allie Burke

summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.

Deb Caletti

The silences weren’t awkward. For me at least. Because I was there in the moment with him.

Dominic Riccitello

Sometimes the loudest things in the world are the things you can´t hear at all~

Paula Acedo

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Susan Cain

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

Anthony Liccione

Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet.

Anthony Liccione

have a mind so quiet, that you can hear doves whispering as they rest their wings in the rafters your silent sanctuary

Kate Mullane Robertson

Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we might keep it stronger, Elated, rather than so tilted or feeble!!

Ana Claudia Antunes

Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.

Kahlil Gibran

She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin’ the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. “What are you thinking about?” Mandy questioned.“Wouldn’t the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?” Alecto asked quietly.

Rebecca McNutt

And stay, my dearstay...forever, as my quiet song,in my lilac dawn.

Sanober Khan

What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.

Frederick Barthelme

The 2ams have held my hopes all these years as I calm my nerves down for there would only be three more hours for the world to wake up to my screams and wails of excruciating pain.Probably the drug store would open if I wait for three more hours then.8am and the doc would prescribe me a few medicines over whatsapp.I would make three cups of tea by then. I would quiet my mouth as it would bite on my arm.By twelve I would finally be relieved as the meds would work.But it's only midnight now... wish you another goodnight's sleep....

Sanhita Baruah

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

Camilla Gibb

[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...

Oksana Rus

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

Criss Jami

I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.

Oddný Eir

Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.

Will Advise

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.

Vera Nazarian

Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...

Robert Greene

The world is quiet here.

Lemony Snicket

Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.

Munia Khan

The afternoon our story begins, the quiet parts of being alive were the busiest: wind unlocking Windows; rainlight nudging curtains apart; fresh-cut grass tickling unsocked feet. Days like this made Alice want to set off on a great adventure.

Tahereh Mafi

We must believe there are places where tranquility still exists and nature is given back her power to speak

Nanette L. Avery

We must believe that there are places where tranquility exists and nature is given back her power to speak...

Nanette L. Avery

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

James Rozoff

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

Beryl Markham

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

Munia Khan

If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

Joyce Rachelle

I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

Meia Geddes

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

Ignatius of Loyola

I have rooted myself into this quiet place where I don’t need much to get by. I need my visions. I need my books. I need new thoughts and lessons, from older souls, bars, whisky, libraries; different ones in different towns. I need my music. I need my songs. I need the safety of somewhere to rest my head at night, when my eyes get heavy. And I need space. Lots of space. To run, and sing, and change around in any way I please—outer or inner—and I need to love. I need the space to love ideas and thoughts; creations and people—anywhere I can find—and I need the peace of mind to understand it.

Charlotte Eriksson

...and you will hold me with your wondering eyes in the serenity of purest mind at the dreams edge of my quiet golden shores accompanied by the melodies of emerald blue rippling waves where I will always remain voicing harmony in the over the rainbow soothing memories of your heart...

Oksana Rus

I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon to visit. Once in a lifetime, even, is enough. To feel the stripping down, an ebb of the press of conventional time, a radical change of proportion, an unspoken respect for others that elicits keen emotional pleasure, a quick intimate pounding of the heart.The living of life, any life, involves great and private pain, much of which we share with no one. In such places as the Inner Gorge the pain trails away from us. It is not so quiet there or so removed that you can hear yourself think, that you would even wish to; that comes later. You can hear your heart beat. That comes first.

Barry López

Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Women will one day rule the world, and when they do, their brains will be so finely tuned from all the years of quiet that I anticipate they will be far superior rulers to men.

Samantha Hunt

Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech.

Matshona Dhliwayo

HIDEAWAYPreserve thatsecret, homey spotin your heart,as sanctuary where dreams may be softly tended,and revived.

Tara Estacaan

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

Robert Burton

Oh stupid, silly, awkward me;Will I never, ever see?People babble, speak, and talk;All I can do is stand and gawk!

Margo T. Rose

There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”.It was a beautiful night.

Charlotte Eriksson

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