Unspoken Communication Quotes

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

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

The emoji still doesn't really speak to the complexity that actually - or the subtext that goes on between when people actually speak face-to-face.

Silence, when nothing need be said, is the eloquence of discretion.

A body smiles, like, 72 times a day. Where does that smile go? That's what I want to know.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

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

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

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

They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.

What is done tacitly must be held as if it had been done expressly .

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

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 had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.