Marguerite Duras Quotes

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

Friendship needs no words.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

It's kind of amazing how well you can get to know someone without talking.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language.

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

You can't really explain why you get on well with someone. It's instinctive.

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

That's the beauty of love. Sometimes you don't have to say nothing.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?