Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.

Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I have no message.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

She was a genius at listening.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

Crying is a kind of communication, and communication is awesome.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

Even silence is so articulate at times.

I did a show in Germany, and some kid - he was disabled - he was actually in a wheelchair, and he came out to my show, and he couldn't get across to me what he was trying to say, and you could see that he was frustrated because he couldn't fully express himself, and I just felt like, 'Wow, he's just really passionate about me.'

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.