Emil Cioran Quotes

The most beautiful surprise is that you have these moments where you connect with people on a deep level without saying a word. It's one of those wonderful things that you get what you give, and I'm grateful for it.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.

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.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

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.

That's the beauty of love. Sometimes you don't have to say nothing.

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.

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.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

Kiss me with your eyes.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

There is a form of communication that transcends the power of words.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

Friendship needs no words.