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“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
“I will be calm, I will be mistress of myself.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“In the meantime let us try and converse calmly, since we are incapable of keeping silent.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Despair has its own calms.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealousy; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
“How slight a thing will disturb the equanimity of our frail minds!” Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“the Master takes action by letting things take their course. He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning. He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“They think me mad—Starbuck does; but I’m demoniac, I am madness maddened! That wild madness that’s only calm to comprehend itself!” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with the covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal...” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.” Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
“It's like all those quiet people, when they do lose their tempers they lose them with a vengeance.” Agatha Christie, The A.B.C. Murders
“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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