“When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.”

“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

“I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“…I suppose that the image people have of me is one that's quite talkative, because in interviews and that you can sometimes get nervous, and the thing when you meet people… I tend to be quite chatty just because that's just something I do. But in terms of Maps' character, I'm like him in that I'm perfectly happy in my own company. And I'm probably happiest when I'm being quiet.”

Daniel Radcliffe (1989) English actor

“Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.”

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian

“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”

Lin Yutang book The Importance of Living

“Get me a drink of water, please, and something to quiet my belly. It’s rumbling so much I can’t hear myself think.”

John Brunner book The Tides of Time

“One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.”

Norman Maclean (1902–1990) American author and scholar

“When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else."

Then let's be quiet together.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter