2,656 Quotes About Silence

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.

It needs strength to stay silent, but it needs courage to confide in somebody.

I just wanted silence, not rage, not anger, not going trouble... One simple thing silence!

As long as there is sound, voices will remain silent.

It is better to remain silence than to speak rudely when being provoked.

But, even when angry, she had a voice that would put finches in their place and lull them to silence.

At a certain pitch of religious experience, the heart just wants to sing; it breaks into song. Paradoxically, you could say when the silence finds its fullness, it comes to word.

I'm silent when there is a war inside me. There's a need to keep the people outside intact.