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“I am not sad anymore.
I am not weak or tender or quiet like you remember because the second you said those words and closed that door, I sold my soul to the part of myself I had buried in order to love you, to let you touch every inch of my rotten body, for I wanted to be touchable and not so strange. Not so sad and tender, like I’ve always been, they say, so I changed.
And then your glances and words throwing knives with no return about my change of habits and ways of living, being, and I nodded and smiled, dying silently a little bit inside.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

“Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans.”
― Munia Khan

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“I have rooted myself into this quiet place where I don’t need much to get by. I need my visions. I need my books. I need new thoughts and lessons, from older souls, bars, whisky, libraries; different ones in different towns. I need my music. I need my songs. I need the safety of somewhere to rest my head at night, when my eyes get heavy. And I need space. Lots of space. To run, and sing, and change around in any way I please—outer or inner—and I need to love. I need the space to love ideas and thoughts; creations and people—anywhere I can find—and I need the peace of mind to understand it.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“This forest silence improves anyone.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“Speaking of happiness, those distinctive moments are found outdoors â€� in the fall, in the winter and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“It is the still, yellow kind of afternoon when one is apt to get stuck in a dream if one sits very quiet”
― Dodie Smith

“It is the quietening of the day that most appeals.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

“Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.”
― Saint Ignatius

“Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I remember as a very young child being warned that libraries and bookstores were quiet places where noise wasn’t allowed. Here was yet another thing the adults had gotten wrong, for these book houses pulsed with sounds; they just weren’t noisy. The books hummed. The collective noise they made was like riding on a large boat where the motor’s steady thrum and tickle vibrated below one’s sneakers, ignorable until you listened, then omnipresent and relentless, the sound that carried you forward. Each book brimmed with noises it wanted to make inside your head the moment you opened it; only the shut covers prevented it from shouting ideas, impulses, proverbs, and plots into that sterile silence.”
― Wendy Welch, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book

“Silent is an anagram of listen.”
― Johnny Rich, The Human Script

“Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.”
― Iain Duncan Smith

“Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“Walk soft, like whispers.”
― Aimee Bender, Willful Creatures

“The sweetest melody that plays
on starry nights and wintry days,
most soothing to my listening ears
and calming to beleaguering fears,
I call a symphony on air�
the song of sweet, still silence rare.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge â€� how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip â€� from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man’s face as he listens to himself speak.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“Good and quiet do not connote weakness.”
― Ogwo David Emenike

“It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.”
― Robert W. Service

“Speech is silver, but silence is golden when hearers are inattentive.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Men believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time. Bobby Shaftoe learned most of his practical knowledge â€� how to fix a car, butcher a deer, throw a spiral, talk to a lady, kill a Nip â€� from the latter type of man. For them, trying to do anything by talking is like trying to pound in a nail with a screwdriver. Sometimes you can see the desperation spread over such a man’s face as he listens to himself speak.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“Look," she said, and just that. That was the only time she opened her mouth, because she wanted to say something unnecessary, something that wouldn't be important or memorable, so I wouldn't have to remember her voice.
We looked at the veil then, the thing that had turned her this way, and we smiled.”
― Willa Valentine

“Solitude is very different from a ’time-outâ€� from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Solemn silence makes noble worship.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“Maybe it’s the quiet,â€� Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

“When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The house was so quiet, as if everyone had been spirited out of sight. I had a feeling of moving through time itself. I saw myself as a small, scurrying animal rushing into my future. But I was not afraid.”
― Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears