Quotes About Communication

Mattie was right about one thing. I should have seen it all coming. I should have seen how much you were hurting, should have seen what Seymour meant to you, should have stopped him from leaving, should have spoken up, done something. If I had seen it coming, we could've fixed whatever was wrong, you and me, we could have made it work. But I didn't. So we can't. Jane was right. I was a danger to you. I never should have come back.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them.

I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall all over myself.

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people.

Her smiles, her mimicries, all the words she uttered were addressed to herself through him.

All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.

I am going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

These young people amaze me; drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If you ask them what they did yesterday, they don't get flustered; they tell you all about it in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd start stammering. It's true that for a long time now nobody has bothered how I spend my time. When you live alone, you even forget what it is to tell a story : plausibility disappears at the same time as friends.

When she was in Djibouti and I was in Aden, and I used to go and see her for twenty-four hours, she managed to multiply the misunderstandings between us until there were exactly sixty minutes before I had to leave; sixty minutes, just long enough to make you feel the seconds passing one by one.

I shall have to get used all over again to speaking to people without touching them.

You have to talk to make sure you're alive.

Chitchat debases a language.

Only he who knows how to speak can be silent.

I can't explain what I see. To anyone. There: I am quietly slipping into the water's depths, towards fear. I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.

We stay silent for a moment. Evening is coming on; I can hardly make out the pale spot of her face. Her black dress melts with the shadow which floods the room. I pick up my cup mechanically, there's a little tea left in it and I bring it to my lips. The tea is cold. I want to smoke but I don't dare. I have the terrible feeling that we have nothing more to say to one another.

L'enfer c'est les autres. aka, Hell is others. .

Zaten sözcüklerden gayr? ne var ki...

el infierno son los otros.

To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore. Your silence clamors in my ears. You can nail up your mouth, cut your tongue out - but you can't prevent your being there.

Ötekilere yalan söylemesinden hoÅŸlan?yordum. Ama bana ayn? biçimde davranmamas?n? isterdim. Bütün bu ölülerin üstünden, çar??lardaki yankesiciler gibi anlaÅŸabileceÄŸimizi ve onun en sonunda bana gerçeÄŸi söyleyeceÄŸini ummuÅŸtum. Oysa hiçbir ÅŸey söylemedi bana, evet, hiçbir ÅŸey!

a man is more of a man because of what he does not say than what he does say.

Cand albii vorbesc intre ei fara sa se cunoasca, inseamna ca pe un negru il pandeste moartea.

Otodidakt konuÅŸmak istiyor gibi. Bak??? çok acayip; görmek için deÄŸil bu bak??, ruhça anlaÅŸmay? saÄŸlamak için. Otodidakt'?n ruhu, belli belirsiz göründüÄŸü o ulu kör gözlerine yükselmiÅŸ. Benimki de öyle yaps?n, gelip burnunu camlara yap??t?rs?n; ikisi de kibarca k?r?t?p dursunlar. Ruhça anlaÅŸma istemiyorum, daha bu kadar düÅŸmedim.Geri çekiliyorum.