Quiet Quotes
Sad Quotes about Quiet

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet"
deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold

My quiet voice speaks the loudest.
- Richard Carlson

Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Parents are not interested in justice,
they're interested in peace and quiet.
- Bill Cosby

If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau

Film spectators are quiet vampires.
- Jim Morrison

Finding some quiet time in your life,
I think, is hugely important.
- Mariel Hemingway

I was a quiet teenager, introverted,
full of angst.
- Nigella Lawson

Every time I have some moment on a seashore,
or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest,
I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
- Bill Bradley

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein

You are perfect. You are complete.
Your inner voice always knows what to do,
but it is a quiet voice.
You can only hear the whisperings of your inner voice -
your inner compass - when you turn down the volume
of your fears, your regrets, your resentments,
and the fear-based advice
your neighbors are so willing to give you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Take some time in a quiet place to contemplate
the balance between being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn -
and renewing your vitality with play and celebration.
Without play, one becomes old and dry.
Without service, life becomes meaningless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank

I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
- Clea Duvall

I thought about how we need to make children feel that
there are times in their lives when they need to be
alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
- Bell Hooks

There's just no quiet in Vegas.
- Barry Manilow

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet,
mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel,
and turmoil, or there is no existence.
- George Byron

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect.
The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we
become towards the defects of others.
- Joseph Addison

Everybody's talking trash these days,
so why not keep quiet?
- Dennis Rodman

Woody Allen sets are very quiet.
Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't
do anything except just stand there.
- F. Murray Abraham

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily.
We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet.
- William O. Douglas

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due
Regard to the government over us;
to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
- Jonathan Mayhew

Anything for a quiet life.
- Thomas Middleton

If I feel strongly, I say it.
I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet.
I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied,
but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.
- Martina Navratilova

I like the variety.
But basically my choice of films is a small intimate film.
Quiet film, no action, just people in relationships.
That's what I like the most.
- Jerry Goldsmith

If you're quiet, you're not living.
You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
- Mel Brooks

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.
- Lillie Langtry

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have
discovered that I really like trains.
If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold
of you and you can relax.
- Honor Blackman

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation
that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read
about it the next morning in the newspaper.
- Arthur Golden

I'm quiet, and I don't enjoy watching horror flicks,
so am I like Zeke? No way.
- Josh Hartnett

In quiet places, reason abounds.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker.
- Armand Assante

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative.
But as soon as I step out of that circle,
I get very quiet and introspective.
I don't want the spotlight on me.
- Rosie Perez

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet
world and I'll take the turbulent one.
- Andy Grove

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
- Austin O'Malley

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
- Olivia Newton-John

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience,
by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
- George A. Smith

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony,
and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
- William Wordsworth

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
- Arundhati Roy

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away,
for a woman to make sorrow in it.
- Amelia Barr

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

A consensus politician is someone who does something
that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
- John Major

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet,
give themselves the benefit of the doubt,
and remain silent.
- Napoleon Hill

I want to be a person who makes a quiet difference.
- Ali MacGraw

Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way
than to have life a peaceful,
placid flow of quiet contentment.
I must have days of rushing excitement.
- Dawn Powell

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
- Daniel Day-Lewis

The thing about democracy, beloveds,
is that it is not neat,
orderly, or quiet.
It requires a certain relish for confusion.
- Molly Ivins

I give you this one thought to keep -
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still in each new dawn.
- Traditional Native American Prayer

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within
yourself so that you can hear it in others.
- Marian Wright Edelman

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
- Edmund Waller

God never did make a more calm, quiet,
innocent recreation than angling.
- Izaak Walton

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant.
- Jamie Redknapp

I write music just for me.
I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind
of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
- Alex O'Loughlin

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude,
and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story.
What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien
life out there? It's also about politics.
- Sarah Zettel

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises,
and hold the rudder steadily in our hands.
I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
- Freya Stark

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies:
paintings on dun walls,
sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
- John Hart

If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd
see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
- Johnny Rotten

I prefer to remake flops.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop,
and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
- Michael Caine

I'm real excited.
I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside.
I just can't keep quiet about it.
- Brian Welch

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give
a sense of quiet in a crowded day -
like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk,
but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.
- Chief Joseph

Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born
and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!
- Marc Anthony

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.
- Agatha Christie

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read.
It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work.
He has such a quiet tone.
- John Turturro

The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills
one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.
- Gustav Stickley