Thornton Wilder Quotes

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

I care about looking into someone's eyes and finding out who they are.

You can have a conversation with your eyes.

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

Kiss me with your eyes.

If two people are able to communicate their feelings without words you know it's true love

I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

The hearts letter is read in the eyes.

It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Just looking at each other is something really moving to me, more so than the nudity.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.

Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

A woman with eyes only for one person, or with eyes always averted from him, creates exactly the same impression.

I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time."-Amelia

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.