Quiet Space Quotes

#1. I was thinking between 3 and 4 this morning, of my 55 years. I lay awake so calm, so content, as if I'd stepped off the whirling world into a deep blue quiet space and there open eyed existed, beyond harm; armed against all that can happen.

Virginia Woolf

#2. When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

Mads Mikkelsen

#3. How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#4. When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.

Karl Jaspers

#6. In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.

Geeta Iyengar

#7. If you don't know what to do next take the oath that will enhance your soul and erase your ego, & from the quiet space inside yourself, you will know what to do.

Nikki Rowe

#8. Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.

Wayne Dyer

#9. An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

Christian De Portzamparc

#10. You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception. Think of deep outer space, the incredible cold and quiet where your wife and kid wait. Silence, not heaven, would be reward enough.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.

Julian Aguon

#12. I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

Jaime Murray

#13. You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

Rusty Schweickart

#14. Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet.

Matthew Lillard

#15. The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread to my country.

Ilan Ramon

#16. Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

John Hart

#17. That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

Ilka Chase

#18. It was a sudden, stunned state of quiet drunkenness, complete in itself, their hair mingled like the rays of two bodies in space that had achieved their meeting, she saw that he walked with his eyes closed, as if even sight would now be an intrusion.

Ayn Rand

#19. Give your mind a lot of space and it quiets down; try to control, quiet, or restrict it, and it goes wild.

Steve Hagen

#20. Gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is ... True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care
with no one there to see or cheer.

David Foster Wallace

#21. I'm outgoing. I like being social. But when I think I should be quiet, I am. And I don't think quiet is the right word. Respectful is more accurate. I want to be respectful of people and their space.?

Jose Bautista

#22. This is the thing I learned from loving a transgender boy who took years to say his own name: that waiting with someone, existing in that quiet, wondering space with them when they need it, is worth all the words we have in us.

Anna-Marie McLemore

#23. It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#24. This is why the social networks are successful actually, because we are living in a society where people are frustrated with living their own life but in a quiet world so thats why with the internet they are creating a new world and that is why society has changed a lot in the space of 10 years.

Emmanuel Petit

#25. There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.

Oscar Wilde

#26. A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.

Thomas Moore

#27. By simply relaxing, being quiet, breathing and having a heartfelt intention to help another being, you create a sacred space. In this space, all things are possible.

Kathleen Prasad

#28. One of the teens I worked with told me about how she loves to take tests, because it is quiet and everyone is occupying their own space.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#29. All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

Sarah Dessen

#30. The Loud came before the quiet. That was a Rule of the World, for the bangs and shouts need somewhere to echo, just as bodies need space in which to fall.

Hugh Howey

#31. How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

Michael Arad

#32. Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

Yasser Seirawan

#33. I was born in Hell. But I am no demon. I am beige and colorful. I was quiet in this room. But I am learning to be loud. Can you hear me? I will make my mark, wherever i am. It is my space. I'll make it mine. I choose. I choose.If I voice my truth, no one loses.

Cecil Castellucci

#34. When I was small, the wind sang me lullabies. Lilting, humming, high-pitched things, filling the space around me so that even when all seemed quiet, it wasn't. This is a wind I have lived with.

Victoria Schwab

#35. I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

Zachary Quinto

#36. My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the blank space ringing the printed poem, the nothing out of which something takes shape.

Camille Paglia

#37. Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.

Zora Neale Hurston

#38. We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.

Shannon Hale

#39. We were in a middle space then, in a cone of white, father and son moving forward at a certain speed. Side by side, not truly quiet but quiescent, two gnarls of human scribble, human cipher, human dream.

Jonathan Lethem

#40. One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.

Albion Fellows Bacon

#41. It made me want more of nothing. Less of things, more of air and freedom and space and quiet and sunshine.

Katie Kacvinsky

#42. You had to translate his actions, for they were seldom accompanied by words, because his world was a quiet world; a disconnected, factured space; a puzzle that made him phone me at 3am, asking me for the last piece of the border, so he could fill in the sky.

Sarah Winman

#43. Deep down I believe each of us is a well-spring of understanding and wisdom, but we simply never allow the space or time for this understanding to rise to the level of conscious thought.

Chris Matakas