Top 100 Without Words Quotes
#1. I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. I can hardly tell where I end, and he begins. I feel in his kiss that there is so much being said without words. It's as though he is claiming me back as his own.
J.S. Taylor
#4. Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.
Daniel H. Wilson
#5. A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
#6. Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Ruth Hubbard
#7. And when we went home he was unnaturally quiet and looked at me as if he wanted to convey all he was feeling without words.
Patti Smith
#8. However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
Malcolm Boyd
#9. We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips.
Simon Van Booy
#10. A picture is poem without words.
Confucius
#11. The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.
Robert Black
#12. Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.
Laozi
#13. Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats.
Sebastien De Castell
#14. For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
#15. real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#16. Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money.
If you approach them, they are not asleep; If you seek them, they do not hide;
If you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Richard De Bury
#17. Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
Helene Cixous
#18. So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#19. Jewelry of the clouds on the horizon;
Seven circles are intertwined.
A voice follows you without words;
Soft footsteps, in the water of transience.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#20. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan
#21. The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
Gabriela Mistral
#22. It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.
Peter Kreeft
#23. He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where, finding no utterance, they grew, and swelled, and undermined.
George MacDonald
#24. Unique feelings are so unique that they can not be popularized. Feelings without words in the dictionary disappear. Every year thousands of feelings disappear for lack of a concrete form.
Isidore Isou
#25. Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#26. The value of teaching without words and accomplishing without action is understood by few in the world.
Laozi
#27. Friends are people you can talk to ... without words when you have to.
Elvis Presley
#29. The gentlest thing in the world
overcomes the hardest thing in the world.
That which has no substance
enters where there is no space.
This shows the value of non-action.
Teaching without words,
performing without actions:
that is the Master's way.
Lao-Tzu
#30. He kissed her once more, gently and deliberately, reassuring her without words that he had no intentions of letting her go.
Stephanie Garber
#31. They had always this queer power of communicating without words. She
Virginia Woolf
#32. If a man has to say trust me it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you do without words.
Juliet Marillier
#34. The greatest acting really is spoken without words, or at least I like to think that.
Dash Mihok
#35. How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said.
You talk without words. We are always talking without words.
Well, what good are words, then?
Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.
William, Saroyan
#36. But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.
Dave Eggers
#37. So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
Godfrey Reggio
#38. One corner of Bodee's mouth moves. There's neither a smile nor a frown on his face, but I understand. Without words, he's telling me not to worry. He'll make certain I get home safely tonight.
Courtney C. Stevens
#39. It was a prayer that he had never said before, because it was a prayer without words or pleas.
Paulo Coelho
#40. The true artist is one who can evoke those raw emotions in their audience, bring them to their knees, and convey their message to them in a foreign tongue. Or without words at all. That type of power is immeasurable.
S.L. Jennings
#41. It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.
Matthew Bourne
#42. When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.
John Bunyan
#43. You were afraid of me? Don't you meet with the Fallen in Sheol?"
"Yes, but none of them had ever stolen my heart nor left me without words to ponder its loss.
Amy A. Bartol
#45. The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#46. Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Sam Mendes
#47. Those who ask without fear learn to say two things, with or without words, to those they are facing: I deserve to ask and You are welcome to say no. Because the ask that is conditional cannot be a gift.
Amanda Palmer
#48. I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to
salvation.
Baruch Spinoza
#49. The proper use of language, for me personally, is one that enables us to approach things (present or absent) with discretion, attention, and caution, with respect for what things (present or absent) communicate without words.
Italo Calvino
#50. I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.
Rosanne Cash
#51. If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to give them up forever.
James Patterson
#52. I have seen words
fly out at the end of thoughts
and not return. I have seen
things at the end of thoughts
without words.
Ricardo M. De Ungria
#54. Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It's getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean.
Suzy Kassem
#55. It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.
Neve Campbell
#56. I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
Kenneth Noland
#57. Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
Ernie Harwell
#58. Style is the way we speak to the world without words.
Bobbie Thomas
#59. Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.
Joan Walsh Anglund
#60. Imagination can create worlds, sadly without words we may never visit them!
David Kingsley Evans
#61. There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#62. There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.
Paulo Coelho
#63. I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.
Natalie Portman
#65. Music without words means
leaving behind the mind.
And leaving behind the mind
is meditation.
Meditation returns you
to the source.
And the source of all is sound.
Kabir
#66. There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#67. But her little white thin hand lay in mine; and we understood each other without words.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#68. How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?
Jane Swan
#69. Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times.
Lange Weile
#70. He understood why people held hands: he'd always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it wasn't. It was about maintaining contact. It was about speaking without words. It was about I want you with me and Don't go.
Cassandra Clare
#71. He looked in her eyes as if trying to tell her he loved her without words. She looked back at him as if to say, I know.
David Soto Jr.
#72. I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.
May Sarton
#73. When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
Branford Marsalis
#75. Writing without words? Its not easy, I tell you! I stab the pen into my heart and let the blood flow. No more ink, no more words, no more b.s. Just me.
Allison Mackie
#76. Thought is impossible without words.
John Dewey
#77. Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
Marcel Marceau
#78. In my opinion, animation is best when it communicates without words, because it is the perfect medium through which to make shortcuts to meaning. When actors are not talking, just acting out, it looks kind of weird. But in animation, mime is constant, and you accept it.
Signe Baumane
#79. I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.
LaMar Boschman
#81. I want to know without words. I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it's indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no-choice connection.
Tia Williams
#82. With our bodies we make statements before we speak, our presentation is a language spoken without words. You - and only you - get to decide what it is you're trying to say.
Hannah Hart
#83. But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them."
Viola: "Thy reason, man?"
Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.
William Shakespeare
#84. Words are what give us power, that without words we are nothing, we do not exist.
Dee Brown
#85. Words, I've come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without words, we're history's orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased
Alena Graedon
#86. He understands why people hold hands: he'd always thought it was about possessiveness, saying This is mine. But it's about maintaining contact. It is about speaking without words. It is about I want you with me and don't go.
Cassandra Clare
#87. Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?
Leigh Hunt
#88. I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.
David
#89. Platitudes are poor substitutes for emotions, this negative space hollowed out and without words. I know the shape of you and it has no name. I know the sound of you and the smell of you and the touch and sight and taste of you. But language departed the same day you did, leaving my mouth empty.
Tania De Rozario
#90. Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?
Lilian Jackson Braun
#91. Wonderful is the power of instrumental music, absolute music without words, that may convey impressions, deep and lasting, no words could give.
Aubertine Woodward Moore
#92. Evey day, there is less of me. Today I am thoughts without words. Tomorrow I will be a body without thoughts. And so it goes.
Gabrielle Zevin
#94. i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings.
Sanober Khan
#97. To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
Anna Kamienska
#98. Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.
Karl Rahner
#99. We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it then.
Ayn Rand
#100. Everybody uses labels: they give you a handle on things - an over-simplified handle, sure, but without labels, without ads, without words, the world would be an indistinguishable mass, a blur. You can hope, maybe, that people ascribe so many labels to you that none wins out
Vito Acconci
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