Quiet Quotes

2761 Quiet quotes by 1865 unique authors

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into… — E. M. Forster
Life is very short. You have to know what is the single most important thing in your life; stay focused on the mission; everything else… — Unknown Author
You know the world must be flat, because when people leave town they never come back. — Hal Ketchum
He wondered how he could ever have thought of the planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly… — C.S. Lewis
Perhaps if human desire is said out loud, the urban planes, the prisons, the architectural mirrors will take off, as airplanes do. The black planes… — Kathy Acker
I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi...… — Haruki Murakami
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes… — Azar Nafisi
In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is… — Charles Dickens
It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives. — Jeffrey Archer
Some of us are darkness lovers. We do not dislike the early and late daylight of June, but we cherish the increasing dark of November,… — Donald Hall
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one… — Peter HÃ¸eg
But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way to find that what I really sought was something I had left… — Tom Hornbein
Words often spoil a moment of judgment or excitement; in all great puzzles and wars and movements, there is a moment to speak and a… — John Gallagher, Jr.
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for… — John of the Cross
A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of… — Randy Wayne White
The rhythm of the water, the sunset over the horizon, and the freedom of the ocean reminds me of how simply beautiful life can be.… — Tara Dakides
To try to explain something as "I love it" and "It's fun" would be like describing the sunset over the middle of the ocean as… — Tara Dakides
The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. — Chet Raymo
I think that there is only one way to science - or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty… — Karl Popper
Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is… — Annie Dillard
Sipping a cup of tea, going for a morning walk, doing your work - all these small activities make up your living. And each part,… — Rajneesh
This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act… — Unknown Author
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are… — Freya Stark
To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give… — Lilian Thuram
There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow. — Keri Hulme

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