Quietness Quotes

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat. (John Selden)
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. View quote
E. Stanley Jones
I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time. View quote
Ted Kennedy
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication. View quote
Lee Krasner
I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher. View quote
R. S. Thomas
When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. View quote
Ieyasu Tokugawa
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness. View quote
Elisabeth Elliot
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. View quote
Truman Capote
Cultivate quietness in word, quietness in deed, likewise in speech and gait; and avoid impetuous eagerness, for then the mind will remain steady, and will not be agitated by your eagerness. ... For the mind, seated on high on a quiet throne looking intently towards God, must control the passions, ... so that your quietness may be adorned by good proportion and your bearing may appear something divine. View quote
Clement of Alexandria
I'm sick of Portraits and wish very much to take my viols-da-gamba and walk off to some sweet village, where I can paint landskips [landscapes] and enjoy the fag - end of life in quietness and ease. But these fine ladies [very probably his wife and daughters] and their tea-drinkings, dancings, husband-huntings, &c, &c. &c., will fob me out of the last ten years, and I fear miss getting husbands too. But we can say nothing to these things you know, Jackson, we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells, only, d-[damned]-it I hate a dust, the kicking up a dust, and being confined in harness to follow the track whilst others ride in the waggon, under cover, stretching their legs in the straw at ease, and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my 'Taste'. That's d-d [damned] hard. My comfort is I have five viols-da-gamba: three 'Jayes' and two 'Barak Normans. (Thomas Gainsborough)
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me. View quote
Anne Sexton
‘Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time-' That's the sort of thing she would have written before the rise of advertising. The correlation is perfectly clear. Advertising up, lyric poetry down. View quote
Frederik Pohl
I have won several prizes as the world's slowest alto player, as well as a special award in 1961 for quietness. View quote
Paul Desmond
I thought, beloved, to have brought to you A gift of quietness and ease and peace, Cooling your brow as with the mystic dew Dropping from twilight trees. Homeward I go not yet; the darkness grows; Not mine the voice to still with peace divine: From the first fount the stream of quiet flows Through other hearts than mine. Yet of my night I give to you the stars, And of my sorrow here the sweetest gains, And out of hell, beyond its iron bars, My scorn of all its pains. View quote
George William Russell
I needed love no words could say; She drew me softly nigh her chair, My head upon her knees to lay, With cool hands that caressed my hair. She sat with hands as if to bless, And looked with grave, ethereal eyes; Ensouled by ancient quietness, A gentle priestess of the Wise. View quote
George William Russell
My patience to his fury, and am armed To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his. View quote
William Shakespeare
You love God, don't you?" Nicholson asked, with a little excess of quietness. "Isn't that your forte, so to speak? From what I heard on that tape and from what Al Babcock -" "Yes, sure, I love Him. But I don't love Him sentimentally. He never said anybody had to love Him sentimentally," Teddy said. "If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable. View quote
J. D. Salinger
A modern hospital is like Grand Central Station-all noise and hubbub, and is filled with smoking physicians, nurses, orderlies, patients and visitors. Soft drinks are sold on each floor and everybody guzzles these popular poisons. The stench of chemicals offends the nose, while tranquillizers substitute for quietness. View quote
Herbert M. Shelton
By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind. This ability to still and gently silence the mind is essential, not only for meditation and the inward journey but also so that the intuitive intelligence can function usefully and in a worthwhile manner in the external world. (B.K.S. Iyengar)
Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise. View quote
James Stephens
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances. View quote
Joni Eareckson Tada
Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. View quote
Margaret Wise Brown
I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country. View quote
Charlotte Casiraghi