“Silence. If simply laying there motionless is bad, laying there silently is even worse. Men like to know that they’re pleasing you and their egos can’t handle you lying there without so much as even giving them a grunt or a moan or something.”— Brooke Dean, madamenoire.com
“Quiet people spend a lot of their time in large social interactions observing others. While others are doing all the talking you’re sitting there listening, taking it all in, and making small mental notes about the people around you.”— Koty Neelis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”— William S. Burroughs, greatist.com
“There’s no one blabbing in your ear first thing in the morning or last thing before your head hits the pillow. You don’t have to listen to the TV blaring or the music blasting—unless you want to!”— Vicki L Hodges, pairedlife.com
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”— Deepak Chopra, books.google.com
“The quiet has a kind of menace. The whole cubular building seems to Hal to hold the tensed menace of a living thing that’s chosen to hold itself still.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com