communicative silence Quotes

For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into silence does not necessarily hate language. Perhaps it is love and respect for language which imposes silence upon him. For the mercy of God is not heard in words unless it is heard, both before and after the words are spoken, in silence.

There are people who don't say a thing and sound magnificent!

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.