Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house…

For my mother, against her will, is beset by suitors, own sons to the men who are greatest hereabouts. These shrink from making the…

— Telemachos

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous…

— William Thoms

“A jet may be perfect for breaking the speed of sound, but a brick is designed to break the speed of silence. Just listen…

— Jarod Kintz

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”

— Albert Einstein

I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the…

— Charles Spurgeon

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude…

— Zhuangzi

“When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“There's quiet because you don't need to say anything, and then there's quiet because you don't want to say something. --Marisol”

— Francisco X. Stork

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

— Rumi

“When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.”

— Bryant McGill

But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there…

— Arundhati Roy

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…

— Sigmund Freud

The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Never mistake someones quietness for their arrogance as you can surely miss out on an awsome personality.

— Anonymous

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton