Quotes About Communication

La maggior parte delle persone si ammala per non saper esprimere quello che vede e quello che pensa.

It offends me that a man can master the Devil, but not the Portuguese language.

The basest of all human needs is the need to confide, to confess. It is the soul's need to go outside itself.

No one understands anyone else. We are, as the poet* said, islands in the sea of life; between us flows the sea that defines and separates us.

Se te queres despedir Não te despidas de mim, Que eu não posso consentir Que tu me trates assim.

Quien no ve bien una palabra , no puede ver bien un alma.

Have you ever thought, O Other, how invisible we are to each other? Have you already pondered how little we know each other? We see each other and do not see each other. We hear each other, and we each hear only a voice inside us. The words of others are errors in our hearing, shipwrecks in our understanding. How confidently we believe in our interpretation of other people's words.

To express something is to conserve its virtue and take away its terror.

There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.

Piccola Ophelinha, non so se mi vuole bene, ma le scrivo esattamente per questo motivo.

Vorrei parlarti, averti sempre accanto, e che non fosse necessario scriverti lettere - le lettere sono segni di separazione - o almeno segni, per la necessità di scriverle, del fatto di essere lontani.

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial

What really shocks me is how these wizards and masters of the invisible, when they write to communicate or intimate their mysteries, all write abominably. It offends my intelligence that a man can master the Devil without being able to master the Portuguese language.

I at once made of those two principles the general foundations of all style: first, to say what one feels exactly as one feels it — clearly, if it is clear; obscurely, if it is obscure; and confusedly, if it is confused; secondly, to understand that grammar is a tool not a law.

In general, men weep little and, when they do complain, they make literature out of it.

El gozo de ser comprendido no puede disfrutarlo quien quiere ser comprendido, porque eso sólo les sucede a los complejos y a los incomprendidos; y los demás, los sencillos, los que pueden ser comprendidos por los demás, ésos nunca sienten el deseo de ser comprendidos.

Only those who are unable to think what they feel obey grammatical rules.

No one understands anyone else.

Other people's understanding of us is made up of so many complex misunderstandings. Anyone who wants to be understood will never know the delight of being understood, because this happens only to the complex and misunderstood; simple souls, the ones whom other people can understand, never feel a desire to be understood.

I enjoy using words. Or rather: I enjoy making words work.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Nothing grates more on me than the vocabulary of moral intent and social responsibility.

Nasciamo senza saper parlare e moriamo senza aver saputo dire. La nostra vita trascorre fra il silenzio di chi tace e il silenzio di chi non è stato compreso, e intorno a tutto ciò, come un'ape in un luogo senza fiori, aleggia sconosciuto un inutile destino.

To be understood is to prostitute oneself.