My Silence Quotes
63 quotes by 55 authors
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
— Xenocrates
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Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've…
— Chris Kraus
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You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.
— Gautama Buddha
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But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.
— Maurice Blanchot
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When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it.…
— Meher Baba
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I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.
— Muriel Rukeyser
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My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various…
— Anna Kamienska
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People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.
— Umar
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I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.
— Chen Guangcheng
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
— Joseph Conrad
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Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness,…
— Dalai Lama
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I continued to protect him with my silence.
— Joyce Maynard
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I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower - the Light in my darkness,…
— Helen Keller
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The Little Mute Boy The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of water the…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on…
— Sarah Vowell
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I have decided to leave Clea’s last letter un-answered. I no longer wish to coerce anyone, to make promises, to think of life in terms…
— Lawrence Durrell
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every…
— David Levithan
Who Wrote These My Silence Quotes
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