Quiet Quotes - Page 27

• He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.

  Anne Rice

  Easy, Expected, Secretive

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Wolf Gift”, p.55, Random House

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• If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.

  Henry Miller

  Laughing, Soul, Important

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The fear is like metal on my tongue—I’ve known him but a fragment of time, and yet I’m certain if I accept his suit, it will destroy a part of me when he leaves.” Keir reached forward to tuck her hair behind her ear. “We’re all a little broken.” Quiet. Potent. “No one goes through life with a whole heart.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Hair, Broken

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Angels' Dance”, p.34, Penguin

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• She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Enough, Virtuous, Knows

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.164, Everyman's Library

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• A cat knows how to be comfortable, how to get the people around it to serve it. In a tranquil domestic situation, the cat is a veritable manipulative genius. It seeks the soft, it seeks the warm, it prefers the quiet and it loves to be full. It displays, when it gets its own way in these matters, a degree of contentment we would all like to emulate.

  Roger Caras

  Cat, People, Contentment

  Roger A. Caras (1987). “A celebration of cats”, Fireside

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• Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Eye, Blow, Long Grass

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.155, eBookIt.com

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• He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Passion, Heart, Rivers

  Hermann Hesse (2017). “Siddhartha”, p.77, Youcanprint

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• You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

  Matthew Quick

  Age, Losing Yourself, Young

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• 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 wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Taken, Dark, Self

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• Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, "Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?

  Louise Rennison

  Dad, Breakfast, Littles

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• History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

  Kate Mosse

  Silence, Determined, Truth Is

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• They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

  Ellis Peters

  Men, Thinking, Reflection

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Heretic's Apprentice”, p.129, Head of Zeus

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• She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

  Ann Brashares

  Long, Hours, Habit

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.21, Random House

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• 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 the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk.

  Ann Brashares

  Fun, Adventure, Romance

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.22, Random House

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• I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Distance, Thinking, Sky

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

  Katherine Applegate

  Drawing, Feels

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• I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Library

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Ironically, when you surrender your need to hog the glory, the attention you used to need from other people is replaced by a quiet inner confidence that is derived from letting others have it.

  Richard Carlson

  People, Needs, Attention

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

  Isaac Marion

  Fall, People, Missing

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude.

  Susan Cain

  Sweet, Humility, Two

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Feet, Tree

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals.

  Tammara Webber

  Meals, Too Much, Condiments

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• I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Dark, Hair

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• Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

  Sarah Dessen

  Envy, Incredibles

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.71, Penguin

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• They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.

  Terry Pratchett

  Father, Eye, Long Ago

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