Quiet Life Quotes

• We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Song, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.27, Heron Dance Press

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  William Penn

  Easter, Being Alone, Health

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

  Keith Richards

  Quiet

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2012

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• The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

  Euripides

  Life, Wise, Silence

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• What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

  William Drummond

  Marriage, Sweet, Delight

  William Drummond, P. C., Peter Cunningham (1852). “Poems by ... W. D. [Edited, with a life by P. C., i.e. Peter Cunningham.]”, p.199

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• I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

  Thom Yorke

  Alarms, Quiet, Surprise

  "Song: No Surprises (OK Computer)". January 12, 1998.

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• A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Music, Happy Life

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• There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Quiet, Shame, Enjoy

  "Do You Drink Too Much ?". Chris Good compilation from British GQ Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Alone, Creativity, Quiet Moments

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• Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Shutting Down, Quiet, Tranquility

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.315, A&C Black

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• Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  War, Generations, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

  Eric Clapton

  Solitude, Quiet

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• I was a peaceful sedentary man, a lover of a quiet life, with no appetite for perils and commotions. But I was beginning to realise that I was very obstinate.

  John Buchan

  Men, Peaceful, Lovers

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.817, e-artnow

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• I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

  Patsy Kensit

  Book, Home, Boys

  "'I've had enough passion to last me a lifetime': Patsy Kensit on why she'll never marry again". Interview with Olivia Buxton, www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2012.

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• If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Freedom, Differences, Caves

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• I enjoy the quiet life.

  Martin Yan

  Life, Quiet, Introvert

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• The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.

  Sir John Richard Hicks

  Monopoly Power, Quiet, Economics

  1935 Econometrica,'The Theory of Monopoly'.

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• There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Past, Years, Realization

  "Daniel Radcliffe reveals recent drinking problem" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. July 5, 2011.

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• The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.

  F.B. Meyer

  Character, Mean, Order

  F.B. Meyer (2002). “Elijah: The Secret of his Power”, p.14, CLC Publications

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• My times of silence before God are very important to me now. I put everything else down, every word away, and I am with the Lord. When I'm quiet, life falls into perspective for me. I have a very active mind and I'm a worrier, but in those moments when I choose to put that away, I rest beside the Shepherd in still places. Why don't you give yourself a gift today? Turn off the television or the car stereo, put down the newspaper or the business plan, and in the quietness, rest for a while beside the Shepherd of your soul.

  Sheila Walsh

  Fall, Giving, Perspective

  Sheila Walsh (2001). “Gifts for Your Soul: A Book of Daily Devotions”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Sports, Quiet, Just Live

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