But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

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

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen...

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...

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler,...

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 is better than loud.

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...

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...

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

My imagination functions much better when I don’t have to speak to people.

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...

The quiet sense of something lost

I’m here”.It was a beautiful night.

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You’ll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I’m still learning what it is about...

Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question...

That’s how it felt – that the loss of him had a life of its own. I lived with it as I could have lived with him. Some nights it was quiet and sometimes it...

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

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

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

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....

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

The sweetest melody that playsOn starry nights and wintry days,Most soothing to my listening earsAnd calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air―The song of sweet, still silence rare.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

I live a very quiet life, although I’m very urban and a diehard New Yorker.

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...

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

I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.

Der kom en vederkvægende ro, en dyb fred og fryd over mig, det var som når en feber ophører. “Her,” tænkte jeg, “kan jeg blive.

Love triangles very rarely stay quiet for very long.

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

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

Build a House for men and birds.Sit with them and play music.For a day, for just one day,talk about that which disturbs no oneand bring some peace,my friend,into your beautiful eyes.

It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

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.

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty should come from within you – the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. This beauty will...

Libby wasn’t a big talker – Michelle and Debby seemed to hog all her words. She made pronouncements: I like ponies. I hate spaghetti. I hate you. Like her mother, she had no poker face....

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn’t it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

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

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

She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was...

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

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

Find peace in the quiet moments.

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.