„When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.“
— Jonathan Edwards
„…I suppose that the image people have of me is one that's quite talkative, because in interviews and that you can sometimes get nervous, and the thing when you meet people… I tend to be quite chatty just because that's just something I do. But in terms of Maps' character, I'm like him in that I'm perfectly happy in my own company. And I'm probably happiest when I'm being quiet.“
— Daniel Radcliffe
„Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings… It's something we make inside ourselves.“
— Corrie ten Boom
„Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.“
— Paulo Coelho
„He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something thatdoesn’t make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve’s one star,Sat gray-hair’d Saturn, quiet as a stone,Still as the silence round about his lair;Forest on forest hung about his headLike cloud on cloud.“
— John Keats
„I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.“
— W.B. Yeats