Wordless Understanding Quotes

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

He says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.

People never think about words, they only feel them.

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.

I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.

The best part of being married is... you don't have to explain a lot of things. Those wordless moments when you both know that what you witnessed together is funny, idiotic, or really sweet. Being connected is pretty miraculous.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

Except...I do. Of course I do. Because as his hands gently cup my waist, I don't make a sound. As he swivels me around to face him, I don't make a sound. I don't need to. We're still talking. Every touch he makes, every imprint of his skin is like another word, another thought, a continuation of our conversation. And we're not done yet. Not yet.

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

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

The one religion is beyond all speech.

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

I have a low opinion of books; they are but piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention. No amount of word-making will ever make a single soul to know these mountains. As well seek to warm the naked and frostbitten by lectures on caloric and pictures of flame. One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books.

Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

Perhaps the more benign and poetic sense of God is established when we are babies in the moments of primal joy we might call 'the epiphanies of infancy' - the sensation of being blissfully held and feeling complete and at one with everything - yet having no words or no need to say it but instead to just assimilate the feeling.