--- title: "10 Quiet World Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Quiet World quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Quiet World sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ee/andy-grove-8875_give-me_so-give-me-a-turbulent-world-as-opposed_1172756.jpg" --- > [So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-grove/so-give-me-a-turbulent-world-as-opposed-to-a-quiet-world-and-i-ll/) [Andy Grove](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-grove/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ee/andy-grove-8875_give-me_so-give-me-a-turbulent-world-as-opposed_1172756.jpg) > [It would be a quiet world with little music if we never loved!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rico/it-would-be-a-quiet-world-with-little-music-if-we-never-loved/) [Adrienne Rico](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rico/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4e/adrienne-rico-65736_love_it-would-be-a-quiet-world-with-little-mu_1285360.jpg) > [You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/you-ll-never-have-a-quiet-world-till-you-knock-the-patriotism-out-of/) [George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/george-bernard-shaw-68_human-race_you-ll-never-have-a-quiet-world-till-you_3142220.png) > [Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/reading-forces-you-to-be-quiet-in-a-world-that-no-longer-makes-place/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b29/john-green-12_force_reading-forces-you-to-be-quiet-in-a-worl_3234964.jpg) > [Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-l-doctorow/most-people-are-quiet-in-the-world-and-live-in-it-tentatively-as-if/) [E. L. Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-l-doctorow/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d42/e-l-doctorow-4627_ifs_most-people-are-quiet-in-the-world-and-l_137121.png) > [Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/simply-wait-be-quiet-still-the-world-will-freely-offer-itself-to-you/) [Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/949/franz-kafka-214_being-quiet_simply-wait-be-quiet-still-the-world-wil_1366196.jpg) > [“I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elin-stebbins-waldal/i-can-no-longer-stay-quiet-in-this-world-i-have-a-voice-and-i-feel-it/) [Elin Stebbins Waldal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elin-stebbins-waldal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/401/elin-stebbins-waldal-235219_domestic-abuse_i-can-no-longer-stay-quiet-in-this-world_1903442.jpg) > [“Funny how I always thought the world would dilate and then snap back with a loud bang the day a boy happened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramona-wray/funny-how-i-always-thought-the-world-would-dilate-and-then-snap-back/) [Ramona Wray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramona-wray/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5c/ramona-wray-26017_time_funny-how-i-always-thought-the-world-wou_1440473.jpg) > [“That's what Zombieland is: calm, quiet. It's the world after a blizzard, the peacefulness that comes with it, the muffled silence and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lauren-oliver/that-s-what-zombieland-is-calm-quiet-it-s-the-world-after-a-blizzard/) [Lauren Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lauren-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a6/lauren-oliver-109_flower_that-s-what-zombieland-is-calm-quiet-it_1147583.png) > [“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-mcdaniel/the-quiet-world-in-an-effort-to-get-people-to-look-into-each-other-s/) [Jeffrey McDaniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-mcdaniel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/jeffrey-mcdaniel-17829_distance-love_the-quiet-world-in-an-effort-to-get-peop_1226488.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/quiet-world/#itemlist", "name": 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It's the world after a blizzard, the peacefulness that comes with it, the muffled silence and the sense that nithig in the world is moving. It's beautiful, in its own way. Maybe we'd be better off. 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