Silent Communication Quotes

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

The speech of my heart will be carried on in murmurings of a song.

C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Painting is silent poetry.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

There are ideas in our hearts, there are wishes, there are aspirations, there are groanings, there are sighings that the world knows nothing about; but God knows them. So words are not always necessary. When we cannot express our feelings except in wordless groanings, God knows exactly what is happening.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.

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

I find movies rely upon dialogue too much sometimes, and you lose the power of what really the most basic cinematic language is, which is the visual language.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

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