After our father died suddenly of a heart attack in 1963, our house became a place of quiet sadness.

The end of his wafting filled him with quiet sadness, but he accepted it.

Torin could not bear the quiet sadness in her eyes, though the revelation made him respect the woman no more and trust her even less.

"I don't know what's happened," he said in a kind of quiet sadness.

She glanced at the full mouth, so wary in spite of its generosity, and the eyes which had a quiet sadness in them.

She smiled; with a quiet sadness, I thought; and shook her head.

She no longer felt any fear at all; only a quiet sadness like a smooth stone in the heart.

She said there was a "quiet sadness" about Jordan, living as he was in exile, very far from home.

A quiet sadness seeped into the room like a cold fog from the bay.

The result is a piece of writing that is all quiet sadness.