silent conversation Quotes

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.'

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

We sit for a few more moments, although there's really nothing left to say. This is new to me, too, an entire conversation that takes place in silence, because the heart has its own language. I will remember what Eric says even though he doesn't say a word. I will tell it to her.

The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practise compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone's back - not even seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man's pain will hurt us all. One man's joy will make everyone smile.

I'm speaking to someone I'm trying to get to fall in love with me. I'm trying to speak intimately to one person. That should be clear. I'm not speaking to an audience. I'm not writing for the podium. I'm just writing, trying to write in a fairly quiet tone to one other reader who is by herself, or himself, and I'm trying to interrupt some silence in their life, which is utterance.

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

What is reading but silent conversation?

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want a say either and it's a strange thing happening here cause nobody saying nothing and we still managing to have us a conversation

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

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