Silent Understanding Quotes

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

I watched season four of 'The Wire.' They have subtle performances that they do through their eyes. You could watch season four with the audio off and still understand what's happening through their eyes.

When words leave off, music begins.

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

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.

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.

Friendship needs no words.

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

You don't need words to express feelings.

Trust is not spoken, Trust is a feeling.

Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.

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

Kiss me with your eyes.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

I want to start where language ends.

Sometimes words are not enough.

Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

Love's tongue is in his eyes.

Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.

Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.