Best quiet & corners Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.”

Heart Meditation Solitude Quiet Corners Discrimination Forests Awake Chamber

Author:Ramakrishna

“Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.”

Littles Rooms Sorrow Quiet Corners Snow Dirty

Author:Betty MacDonald

“I was a very quiet child, quite introverted, really. Independent, yes; I didn't need a lot of supervision. Less so than I did when I got older, maybe. But I was a bookish child, not surprisingly. I could sit quite happily in a corner for hours and entertain myself with books.”

Needs Children Book Hours Quiet Independent Corners Introverted Supervision

Author:John Boyne

“I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close.”

Source: The Pickwick Papers

“'I believe, Mr. Snitchey,' said Alfred, 'there are quiet victories and struggles, great sacrifices of self, and noble acts of heroism, in it - even in many of its apparent lightnesses and contradictions - not the less difficult to achieve, because they have no earthly chronicle or audience - done every day in nooks and corners, and in little households, and in men's and women's hearts - any one of which might reconcile the sternest man to such a world, and fill him with belief and hope in it.”

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

“I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner.”

Kind Quiet Corners Shy Sociable Migrate

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“I was the quiet kid in the corner, reading a book. In elementary school, I read so much and so often during class that I was actually forbidden from reading books during school hours by my teachers.”

Book Kids School Reading Hours Class Teacher Quiet Corners Reading Books Forbidden Elementary School School Hours

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color in my coloring book. When I think back, I made that corner mine, not really caring about the rest of the house.”

Thinking Made Stills Book Young Girl House Mines Color Quiet Corners Caring Solitary

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.”

Sorrow Quiet Corners Far Away

Book:Jan Vedder's Wife

Source: Jan Vedder's Wife

“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”

World Easy History This World Terrible Quiet Corners

Author:Salman Rushdie

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”

World Life Littles Behinds Silence Sacrifice Sweet Needed Quiet Sitting Shadow Leaving Corners Shy Cricket Little Women Beth

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“It's tucked away in a quiet corner, shadowed and obscured, no part of the Nightside's usual bright gaudy neon noir. It doesn't advertise and it doesn't care if you habitually pass by on the other side. It's just there for when you need it. Dedicated to the patron saint of lost causes, St. Jude's is an old old place... St. Jude's isn't a place for comfort for frills and fancies and the trappings of religion. just a place where you can talk to your god and sometimes get an answer.”

Ifs Needs Sometimes Care Lost Causes Sides Answers Comfort Quiet Saint Corners Fancy Usual Dedicated Noir Patron Neon Gaudy Lost Cause Frills Old Places St Jude

Author:Simon R. Green

“But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.”

Knows Four Quiet Shadow Tables Corners Chairs Discerning

Author:Wislawa Szymborska

“All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.”

People Wanted Faces Next Left Party Minutes Quiet Paper Corners Get Up Knees Hats Your Face Vacuums Left Alone Insisting

Book:Eclipse

Source: Eclipse

“Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.”

Knows Heart Littles Quiet Empty Corners

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, your flawless fashion sense?” It did his heart good to see her quick, amused grin. “No, I must be thinking of someone else. It must be your courage, your absolute dedication to balancing scales, that restless mind, and that sweet corner of your heart that pushes you to care so much about so many.” “That’s not me.” “Oh, but it is you, darling Eve.”

Thinking Mind Heart Care Fashion Sweet Quiet Absolutes Corners Scales Dedication Serenity Restless Darling Tricky Amused Flawless Restless Mind Thinking Of Someone

Author:Nora Roberts

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