Quietude Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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I have need to busy my heart with quietude.
— Rupert Brooke
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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.
— Maya Angelou
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In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of Desire, action tends…
— Alexandre Kojeve
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There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the…
— August Kleinzahler
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I have been ineluctably drawn to libraries ever since I entered that sanctum sanctorum. It was a place of quietude. In a world where things…
— Carmen Agra Deedy
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Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,…
— Wendell Berry
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Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity…
— Ole Hallesby
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Children, pray for the good of everyone. We should pray to God to give a good mind even to those who harm us. One cannot…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to ojas (vitality), we…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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The ashram is Mother's body. Mother's soul is in Her children. Children, all the service done for the ashram, is done for Mother. The ashram…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God's many forms, appears only…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
— Doris Lessing
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The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain,…
— Daphne du Maurier
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It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly…
— Daphne du Maurier
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His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to…
— Carl Jung
Who Wrote These Quietude Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Quietude Quotes as follows: