Quiet Quotes - Page 33

• People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Anger, Fighting, Names

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• Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!

  John Keats

  Art, Time, Pain

  Ode to Nightingale St. 6 (1820)

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• It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Sea, Heaven

  1802 'It is a beauteous evening calm and free', l.1-8 (published 1807).

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• Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,
  Pass'd over to the end they were created,
  Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.
  Ah, what a life were this!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Years, White Hair

  William Shakespeare (1853). “The Plays of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Old Copies, and by the Recently Discovered Folio of 1632, Containing Early Manuscript Emendations”, p.476

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• Touch us gently, Time!
  Let us glide adown thy stream
  Gently,-as we sometimes glide
  Through a quiet dream!

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Time, Literature

  Bryan Waller Procter, “A Petition To Time”

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• Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

  William B. Ogden

  Happiness, Reflection, Self

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• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

  Felicia Hemans

  Courage, Heart, Suffering

  Felicia Hemans (2002). “The Siege of Valencia: A Parallel Text Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press

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• There is a contemptibly quiet path for all those who are afraid of the blows and clamor of opposing forces. There is no honorable fighting for a man who is not ready to forget that he has a head to be battered and a name to be bespattered. Truth wants no champion who is not as ready to be struck as to strike for her.

  J. G. Holland

  Courage, Fighting, Blow

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 166, 1895.

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• Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.

  John Galsworthy

  Life, Men, Voice

  John Galsworthy (2015). “Beyond”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• In your arms was still delight,
  Quiet as a street at night;
  And thoughts of you, I do remember,
  Were green leaves in a darkened chamber,
  Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Dark, Night

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.41, Delphi Classics

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• If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

  Ovid

  Life, Giving Up, Bows

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• Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

  John Heywood

  Music, Nature, Silence

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

  Jurgen Prochnow

  Children, Parenting, Firsts

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• Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

  Erich Fromm

  Peace, Productive Work, Able

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.107, Routledge

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• They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dawn, Brokenhearted

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• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it

  Alfred Whitney Griswold

  Life, Inspiring, Beautiful

  Alfred Whitney Griswold (1959). “Liberal Education and the Democratic Ideal: And Other Essays”

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• Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

  John Lahr

  Music, Science, Silence

  John Lahr (1970). “Up against the fourth wall: essays on modern theater”

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• The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Smile, Love Is, Speak

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grief, Heart, Winter

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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• Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

  George Santayana

  Adventure, Age, Spirit

  George Santayana (1953). “Persons and Places: My host the world”

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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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• Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Vision, Dull

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• Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Success, People

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2016

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• The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

  Ovid

  Men, Sea, Sailing

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• When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Race, Friendly

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.145, e-artnow

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