Skip to content

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

— Marcel Marceau

Another quote →

Topics

More quotes by Marcel Marceau

To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978)

In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.

All Marcel Marceau quotes →

You may also like

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Marcel Marceau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.