Quietude Quotes

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk. - Charles H Spurgeon

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. - Oliver Goldsmith

. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. - Herman Melville