Andre Gide Quotes

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

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

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

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.

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

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

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 the voice of my silence.

When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?

We are different. We are equal in every way but our voices are important to each other and our need to want to listen to each other and try to understand, because sometimes we are so difficult to understand. Men to understand us, and we to understand men. And we don't. We don't connect the way we should.

If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.

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

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

I love how a story can help someone discuss something they otherwise would not.

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