Fire Quote by Khalil Gibran

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

— Rumi

The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I have made a pact with my tongue, not to speak when my heart is disturbed.

— Saint Francis de Sales

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my…

— Rumi

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

— William Drummond

[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived…

— Audre Lorde

Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can…

— Anonymous

Speak only when your words are more beautiful than the silence..

— Anonymous

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even…

— Audre Lorde

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

— Charles Dickens

I always felt I had to fill silences, usually by singing or whistling. It was nerves and shyness, really.

— Rolf Harris

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

— Federico Garcia Lorca