Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Whispering can be a rest from a noisy world of words.

Silence is best.

I like silence.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

Silence is the most powerful state.

Peace and quiet govern the world.

Silence, nothing is better.

Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I really love peace and quiet.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness.

There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

If I were a physician, and if I were allowed to prescribe just one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence. For even if the Word of God were proclaimed in the modern world, how could one hear it with so much noise? Therefore, create silence.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Take time to be quiet.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

The world is quiet here.

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.

There is much to be said for solitude.