Quieted Quotes

#1. Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.

Genevieve Gerard

#2. His mind stilled. His soul quieted. And his memories-the parts of himself he'd feared were lost forever-had come home.

Cassandra Clare

#3. In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

Mary Lascelles

#4. The more honest you are, the more quieted you are within.

John De Ruiter

#5. When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.

Chogyam Trungpa

#6. Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.

John Green

#7. And the process, the ritual, quieted the hum of his mind so he could write.

James Renner

#8. To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. A radical, who stood on top of an abandoned piano to declare that the fire was the friend of the poor and urge the crowd to help itself to what it wanted, was suddenly quieted by a well-aimed whiskey bottle.

Emmett Dedmon

#10. The ground of hope is an assured testimony of the conscience, by the gift of the holy Ghost, that we are beloved of God, and this is nothing else but that which we call faith: whereof it followeth, that through faith our consciences are quieted.

Anonymous

#11. You have taken me and quieted me.
You have been such light to me that others have been your shadows.
You come near me with the nearness of sleep.

--"Marriage", Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

#12. Quentin quieted and watched her for a moment, hungrily, like he was trying to memorize every detail. Maybe he was. Forever is a long time. You have to burn the edges of memory onto your heart, or they can fade, and sometimes the second loss is worse than the first one.

Seanan McGuire

#13. Thank you, sir. Thus far the highlight of my stay has been making love to you.
Mr. Nobley bowed in acknowledgment. The conversation completely quieted.

Shannon Hale

#14. The rest of the world quieted into nothing. In that moment, after ten long years, Celaena looked at Chaol and realised she was home.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self.

John De Ruiter

#16. Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we'll get a nice explosive package from him that says "so nice to see you again" in a way that only multi-megaton yields can.

Howard Tayler

#17. Let's put it this way: The animal inside of me has not quieted down yet. It's still there. It's still fighting.

Troy Dumais

#18. Burying his face in Emma's neck, Noah's cries quieted as Emma hummed to him. Their food arrived then.
Wanna come to Daddy, Little Man, so Mama can eat?

Katie Ashley

#19. The comment quieted the room, like a sudden shout of "Who wants extra bacon?" at a bar mitzvah.

Brandon Sanderson

#20. While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

Michel De Montaigne

#21. Locke threw himself at Father Chains, and the man, without hesitation, scooped him up and held him, patting his back until his racking sobs quieted down.

Scott Lynch

#22. Love cannot be quieted when it has a message to share. Love is not prejudiced and it is not blind; love sees through eyes that are as clear as the sky is blue.

Camille Lucy

#23. When you rest in the weakness of your heart, your being moves and your self becomes quieted.

John De Ruiter

#24. Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#25. I realized that Sam wasn't angry at all. She was hurt. At that moment I heard all the hurt she'd ever held. And it seemed to me that the whole house had quieted down to listen to her pain.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#26. The crowd quieted as a whole, but more than one creature cursed under his breath, "Not Regin."
A drunk hunched over the bar muttered, "That glowing one made me eat a transistor radio once.

Kresley Cole

#27. In my position, the right witchdoctor
Might have caught you in flight with his bare hands,
Tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other,
Godless, happy, quieted.
I managed
A wisp of your hair, your ring, your watch, your nightgown.

Ted Hughes

#28. That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, and we shall never again believe.

Adolf Von Harnack

#29. He'd left me for a time. He'd doubted me, but now he was mine again and I wanted to keep him here in a tangle of limbs and bedsheets until I'd quieted every last voice and we were only right again.

Paula McLain

#30. What a messed up year this is going to be." Becky said after the laughter quieted down. "And it's only just the beginning.

Adrienne Woods

#31. When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking altogether and just felt, she knew this was right. Feeling the silence of peace and conviction was so foreign to her she wasn't even sure what to do with it.

Erin McCarthy

#32. Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.

Matsuo Basho

#33. quieted my mind and spread my focus to every rustle, creak, and call from the wild lands. Nature had a rhythm akin to the beating of a drum or heart,

K.J. Colt

#34. The snow fell and fell, dancing and curling like sparkling spindrifts, the white fresh and clean against the brown and gray of the world. And despite myself, despite my numb limbs, I quieted that relentless, vicious part of my mind to take in the snow-veiled woods. Once

Sarah J. Maas