Top 100 Quotes About Wordless
#1. Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and ceaseless expression of the buddha nature.
John Daido Loori
#2. And then his mouth met mine and the taste of him was all I knew. I moaned, a wordless confession of my desire and complete willingness
Mia Sheridan
#4. This wasn't a case of gilding the lily. If there was a lily underneath all that, it had long since been crushed to a pulp. The party stopped in its tracks as she took off her cloak, frozen in wordless contemplation of a wardrobe that made the word "gaudy" sound sweet and demure by contrast.
Courtney Milan
#5. Who will remember Todd?
Who will remember what he did?
Todd -
Todd -
And my heart breaks even more -
Breaks forever -
And I fall to my knees in the snow and sand -
And I yell out, wordless and empty -
And I drop the weapon.
Patrick Ness
#6. When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
Richard Schmid
#7. The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.
Charles Simic
#8. Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.
Wes Nisker
#9. In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.
Khalil Gibran
#10. When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.
Sylvia Plath
#11. True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
Adyashanti
#12. Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
Thomas Merton
#13. They had a great deal in common, Bowman a little defiantly said. What they had in common was more vital than similar interests
it was wordless understanding and accord. It was love, the furnace into which everything is dropped.
James Salter
#14. He longed for something wordless and potent: what? To wear her.
Lauren Groff
#15. It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
Erica Jong
#16. The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.
Lance Morrow
#17. I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
Khalil Gibran
#18. Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.
Etty Hillesum
#19. Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.
Gilbert Highet
#20. I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#21. The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
Emil Cioran
#22. He went wordless, and wordless he sat beside her. He knew the size of her sorrow.
Walter Wangerin Jr.
#23. The angels can sometimes come as wordless words, as feeling, and as repetitive signs, like getting recommended the same book over and over and over again.
Doreen Virtue
#25. Phone calls didn't seem to be necessary - they just knew things about each other. I didn't want to be the subject of the wordless chatter they shared like dolphins, sending out echoes that bounced off the mountains and into the hearts of each of the other three sisters.
Laura Templeton
#26. It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.
Arca
#27. Stories are based in conflict, and when the conflict is resolved the story ends. That's because for the most part happiness is amorphous, wordless, and largely uninteresting.
Ann Patchett
#28. Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
#29. the Spartan right fall upon the defenders of Antirhion, not in frenzied shrieking rage, lip-curled and fang-bared, but predator-like, cold-blooded, applying the steel with the wordless cohesion of the killing pack and the homicidal efficiency of the hunt.
Steven Pressfield
#30. The pure, the bright, the beautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth; The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The striving after better hopes ... These things can never die.
Ruskin Bond
#31. A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.
Michel De Certeau
#32. I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.
Pearl Primus
#33. This was what she needed ... the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
Eileen Wilks
#34. I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.
Sara Teasdale
#35. Describe plum-blossoms?
Better than my verses ... white
Wordless Butterflies
Reikan
#36. Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face ... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smile, and in her wordless expression I saw gratitude, and relief, and trust. I wanted, desperately, not to disappoint her.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#37. What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
Kahlil Gibran
#38. Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me ... " As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
Brennan Manning
#39. I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
Beth Gibbons
#40. Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.
Douglas Adams
#41. If we look at the world around us, we see that we are conditioned to not listen deeply. Because isn't that what silence is? It's a listening, a deep wordless listening.
Adyashanti
#42. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept.
Thomas Merton
#43. She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.
Jessica Khoury
#44. She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is - a cat!"
But that was not how his mind saw her - quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.
Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?
Cordwainer Smith
#45. The buzzer went off again, and Neil's heart stopped. The ringing in his ears wasn't all him. His teammates were screaming, wordless war cries of disbelief and victory.
Nora Sakavic
#46. We are lips and arms and legs and bodies entangled. He raises himself above me and we are wordless, and then we are joined and moving silently. We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe.
Nicola Yoon
#47. Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice
you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.
Michael Jackson
#48. For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.
Roberto Bolano
#49. There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
Flannery O'Connor
#50. Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds. Inarticulate, he moved with her at the Marsh in violent, gloomy, wordless passion, almost in hatred of her.
D.H. Lawrence
#51. I left smiles on your wordless lips
The night roads- dismal and narrow,
dream's path remains shadowy wide
as our lone hearts felt that arrow
From the Poem 'My Tomorrow
Munia Khan
#52. My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.
But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.
Alison Bechdel
#53. The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other.
Wallis Simpson
#54. He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
Saint Augustine
#55. Sleepless people were bound by a wordless solidarity.
Pascal Mercier
#56. Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ... with wordless variety ... She spells the name of Love.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#57. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.
Stephen King
#58. Hear from the heart wordless mysteries.
Rumi
#59. At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#60. Dim light played on her face as she turned to wordless prayer, trusting that her Lord, Who saw her heart, knew what it was crying though she was unable to utter it.
Amanda Tero
#61. This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.
Walt Whitman
#62. It was a scream of loss so immense there was no speech for it. It was the wordless cry of having the sky over your head, the air in your lungs, ripped away from you forever.
Cassandra Clare
#63. 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.
Paul Reiser
#64. Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned
Edward Abbey
#66. Sometimes I am a cicada, hissing and singing in the leaves of a tree by the sunlit water, thoughtless and wordless, a voice that is all consonants and tribal clicks. Sometimes I rub my legs together like a string bass, and the lake quivers
Catherynne M Valente
#67. Love is a sacred mystery.
To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.
Khalil Gibran
#68. My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.
Doris Lessing
#69. I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along.
I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage.
Ken Kesey
#70. Dogs, being wordless, can only be mirrors of their humans. It's not their fault that their people are fatally flawed.
Lauren Groff
#71. All stories come from the writer's heart, and all hearts speak the same language, a wordless language ancient as time, and for the writer, this is the eternal struggle, to translate the wordless into words.
Stan D. Jensen
#72. And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't quite love but was so close I could believe in it sometimes.
Lauren Oliver
#73. Comfort and reassurance and a wordless understanding that there is always darkness. In some part of us, there is absolute darkness, as much as we wish otherwise. As much as we pretend otherwise. Anders shifts
Kelley Armstrong
#74. He let himself be led into the night, into the forest, into the blind secret wordless, thoughtless country.
Hermann Hesse
#75. And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me.
And i fall back into it.
Patrick Ness
#76. Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.
Jaeson Ma
#77. Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her
Frank Herbert
#78. In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.
Barbara Kingsolver
#79. Gail looked out at the water, wanting to hear it again, that soft foghorn sound, and she did, but it was inside her this time, the sound was down deep inside her, a long wordless cry for things that weren't never going to happen.
Joe Hill
#80. I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
Anais Nin
#81. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.
Gary Snyder
#82. And suddenly I realized that this too was a message, a last wordless communication among neighbors. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me. I pressed a finger to the tiny crevice.
Corrie Ten Boom
#83. I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.
James Turrell
#84. Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]
Mark Z. Danielewski
#85. To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a wordless state called meditation or a state of no-mind, satori, samadhi.
Rajneesh
#86. The Gods have meant
That I should dance
And in some mystic hour
I shall move to unheard rhythms
Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven
And you will know the language
Of my wordless poems
And will come to me
For that is why I dance.
Ruth St. Denis
#87. It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?
J.K. Rowling
#89. Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
Don DeLillo
#90. Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.
Patrick Rothfuss
#91. Don't ask me anything else. My essence is wordless.
Anonymous
#92. ARE YOU CRAZY? I ASKED.
He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.
Richelle Mead
#93. Wordless,
Infinite -
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.
Frida Kahlo
#94. How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?
Fay Weldon
#95. What?"
Finn remembered sitting at the kitchen table with Sean, both of them trying to say the world "table" in Polish. Roza had said, "You have tongue like cow!" and laughed and laughed.
"What?" Sean said again.
He had tongue like cow, he had mind like cow. Dull, wordless.
Laura Ruby
#96. Our first experience of life is primarily felt in the *body.* ... We know ourselves in the security of those who hold us and gaze upon us. It's not heard or seen or thought it's felt. That's the original knowing.
Richard Rohr
#97. I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.
Maggie Stiefvater
#98. Burnt by the sun
of your mouth,
I'm unable to speak
or paint you with words
John Geddes
#99. They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.
Michael Grant
#100. No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.
Aimee Bender
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