Quotes About Communication

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

Hazel understood. Being grown up meant doing what grown-ups wanted you to do. it meant sacrificing your imagination for rules. It meant sitting quietly in you chair while your best friend is helicoptered off for emergency eye surgery. It meant letting people say whatever they wanted to you.

Jack hesitated still, and Hazel wanted to say something comforting, give him some bright plastic flowers of words, but Jack would see them for what they were. Jack knew how to see things.

The words kept coming and he could not stop them, not while Callie was standing there so indecipherably, and so he was going to keep talking until he used up all the words there were and then no one would be able to talk to anyone else anymore and then all anyone would have left were one another's unintelligible faces, and maybe some weird gesturing, too, and it would be all Oscar's fault.

They said words they did not mean, and their conversations seemed to follow all kinds of rules—rules that no one has ever explained to Oscar.

IF WE WANT to heal, we have to start getting honest with ourselves and others. Creating the possibility for more truth is up to each of us.

Et, quand vous ne pouvez pas raconter, vous avez l'impression de mourir d'étouffement.

Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, 'Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,' but it's really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

Sometimes I wonder why I write down all these memories. Would I want to give them to strangers to read?

Es wäre natürlich ganz und gar verfehlt, das aufzuschreiben, worüber Margot und ich halbe Tage und Nächte lang reden, so intensiv und ehrlich von beiden Seiten, dass man sich fast um Kopf und Kragen redet. (Brief an Klaus Mann, 23. Juli 1940)

Es ist sehr nett, verheiratet zu sein. Man muss nur wissen, dass zwei Menschen niemals ein Herz und eine Seele haben können. Sie bleiben immer zwei Leute, zwei Herzen. Es kommt nur darauf an, angenehm nebeneinander zu leben und doch nie allein zu sein.

The first step toward persuading others is an evident and sincere willingness to be persuaded yourself.

Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think

We can take it slow," he said. "You can learn to be with me. Find out what I'm all about. You never know, you might like what you find." "Don't hold your breath," she said. He stepped toward her casually, amusement flickering around his lips. She tensed, her eyes checking for a way to run. "Or..." His hand lashed out, grabbed her, and whipped her into his arms, where he held her tight. "We can take it fast and rough.

Andy crouched disconsolately before Judge Hardy. "Dad, I don't understand these modern girls. Polly won't let you kiss her at all, but this Cynthia, she'll let you kiss her whenever you want, all the time.

Nancy thought Bean was a pain and a pest. Bean thought Nancy was a booger-head.

My deeds must speak for me, for words are too poor.

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

not all situations are appropriate for truthseeking, nor are all people interested in the pursuit.