2,656 Quotes About Silence

Be still when God is silience

I am homesick for a place where silence is the only language, love is the only religion, and freedom is not something to be fought for…

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

the mind is just as immeasurable as the vast universe. An integral being settles his mind just as the vast universe settles itself. He unites his mind with the unnamable Subtle Origin of the multi-universe in which there is no past, present or future. This is how an integral being deals with his mind.

On silence: Silence is an important language. Not speaking can be an intensely relational act.… Repression is a kind of silence, and also shapes voice. [p. 23]The silencer has power. The dominant culture defines what is spoken about, what is repressed. The effect on the non-dominant culture (in this case women or girls) is to learn the language of camouflage. She learns to disassociate from her own knowing and her own voice.[p. 50] from WOMEN VOICE AND WRITING

A voice came from his inside, and shook him up by the roots; the inner voice that had been drowned long back, somewhere deep within, by the noise of opinions of others; the voice that had been constantly screaming ever since, albeit failingly, from the depth to make itself heard; the voice that was now distinctly audible in silence, suggesting him to take a new path, a path that he would have to walk upon alone.

The sound of my own voice is unfamiliar to me after a long silence.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.