Quiet Quotes - Page 40

• This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Soul, Shadow

  "Either/Or" by Soren Kierkegaard, ‎Howard Vincent Hong, ‎Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 168), 2013.

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• For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Song, Laughter

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• Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Thinking, People, Idiot

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• Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Death, Age, Aging

  "Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen".

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• All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sleep, Aristocracy, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.230, Ravenio Books

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• I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Nursing, Light

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2004). “Florence Nightingale on Public Health Care: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.31, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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• Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.

  Bonnie Baker

  Writing, Our World, Self

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• I usually like to make really dramatic songs that are dynamic from part to part - a lot of jumping from really quiet to really loud.

  Mike Shinoda

  Song, Jumping, Dramatic

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• If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

  Herbert Benson

  Inspirational, People, Mind

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• Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Depression, Light, Mental Illness

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.626, Scholastic UK

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• The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Air

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.2

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• The word had spread and people were piling around us. But then very suddenly, Sonny Liston froze me with that look of his. He said real quiet, 'Let's go on over here.' And he led the way to a table and the people hung back. I ain't going to lie. This was the only time since I have known Sonny Liston that he really scared me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, Lying, People

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• I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Love, Beauty, Sadness

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• If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

  Tisha Venturini

  Pits, Benches, Ifs

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Art, Struggle, Color

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• I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.

  Clare B. Dunkle

  Running, Stars, Moon

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• In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience

  Minnie Driver

  Machines, Weight, Like You

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• I'd rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

  Adam Levine

  Bored, Misunderstood, Loud

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• We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

  Kyan Douglas

  Who We Are, Path, Guides

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But generally speaking, I tend to be quiet and introspective.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Introspective

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• I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

  Maya Rudolph

  Mother, Children, Would Be

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• I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Easier

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. March 23, 2005.

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• I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Guy, Mouths, Kind

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