Quotations about silence...

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence.... We need silence to be able to touch souls. ~Mother Teresa.

Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. ~Author Unknown.

Words can make a deeper scar than silence can heal. ~Author Unknown.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The best answer to anger is silence. ~Author Unknown.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sri Sathya Sai Baba.

Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arab Proverb

To silence another, first be silent yourself. ~Latin Proverb.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. ~Samuel Johnson.

God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken,
And yet so profound, so loud, and so far,
It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken,
And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.
~Joaquin Miller.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius.

Silence is a source of great strength. ~Lao Tzu.