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Quiet Quotes

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Rollo May
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
Rollo May

Deb Caletti
“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you鈥檙e not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don鈥檛 have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Robert Greene
“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”
Robert Greene

Vera Nazarian
“Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer.”
Vera Nazarian

H. Beam Piper
“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”
H. Beam Piper, Fuzzies and Other People

Reif Larsen
“Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversation or thought bubbles or laughter or sidelong glances. Everyone was sleeping, all of their ideas and hopes and hidden agendas entangled in the dream world, leaving this world clear and crisp and cold as a bottle of milk in the fridge. ”
Reif Larsen, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet

Lemony Snicket
“The world is too quiet without you nearby.”
Lemony Snickett

Beryl Markham
“There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
Beryl Markham, West with the Night

Toni Morrison
“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”
Toni Morrison, Love

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
“How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?”
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

“Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.”
Ester Buchholz

Hilary Thayer Hamann
“The unusual thing about quiet is that when you seek it, it is almost impossible to achieve. When you strive for quiet, you become impatient, and impatience is itself a noiseless noise. You can block every superficial sound, but, with each new layer extinguished, a next rises up, finer and more entrapping, until you arrive at last in the infinite attitude of your own riotous mind. Inside is where all the memories last like wells, and the unspoken wishes like golden buds, and the pain that you keep, lingering and implicit, staying inside, nesting inside, articulating, articulating, through to the day you die. (p. 240)”
Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl

Susan Cain
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story.”
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable.”
Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

Ann Brashares
“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, Sisterhood Everlasting

Frederick Barthelme
“What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.”
Frederick Barthelme, Elroy Nights

Madeleine L'Engle
“Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.”
Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Sanober  Khan
“..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
“It's quiet in the car, in a good way for once. No words, no music. Silence seems right. I roll down the windows and lean my head against the door frame, listening to the wind rush by and smelling the pine trees. I watch the stars materialize, like someone is dimming the switch on the night sky so each shining dot grows brighter and brighter.”
Jennifer Salvato Doktorski, How My Summer Went Up in Flames

Sarah Dessen
“I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.”
Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Keep your problems to yourself, if its too much for you, kill it slowly till it disappears from your life.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Ransom Riggs
“I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.”
Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Frank McCourt
“Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.”
Frank McCourt

Nicholas Sparks
“You're very perceptive for a guy who can go a whole day without talking,鈥� she said, peering up at him. 鈥淭hat's why I'm perceptive.”
Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.”
Anaxagoras

“Quiet is the new loud”
Joe Robitail

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it鈥檚 louder.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Will Advise
“Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.”
Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Everyone is quiet. Which is the wooooooorst. It鈥檚 scary when a group of people all know instinctively not to joke around.”
Tina Fey, Bossypants