Quotes About Communication

She carried on talking. And as she did so, I realized there could be no cosmic consequence at all if I stopped listening, and with that realization I switched off the phone.

Friend: Someone who will tell you the truth, often mistaken for an enemy.

The moment we try and turn a thought into words we place it into a shared world. This shared world we call 'language', Once we take our personal unseen experiences and make them seen, we help others, and even ourselves, to understand what we are going through. What we say aloud can never quite capture what we feel inside, but that is almost the point. Words don't capture, they release.

To be a human was to continually dumb the world down into an understandable story that keeps things simple.

He believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.

Tears were a kind of language and I felt all language was far away from me. I was beneath tears. Tears were what you shed in purgatory. By the time you were in hell it was too late.

For me, personally, the point of writing is to connect me to this world, to my fellow humans. We are all miles apart. We have no real means of connecting except via language. And the deepest form of language is storytelling.

One thing that has remained constant, across four centuries, has been the desire for a British person to fill a silence with talk of the weather, and whenever I have lived there I was no exception to this rule.

This was a life where she put four exclamation points in a row. That was probably what happier, less uptight people did.

Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.

Words – spoken or written – are what connect us to the world, and so speaking about it to people, and writing about this stuff, helps connect us to each other, and to our true selves.

The very reason such music exists is because it is a language that couldn't be communicated in any other way. But all I can say is that I felt suddenly

What we say aloud can never quite capture what we feel inside, but that is almost the point. Words don't capture, they release.

I began to wonder if it was a bad thing to dwell on problems. But then I remembered that it is precisely not talking about problems that is itself a problem. It's what causes people to break down in their office or classroom. It's what fills up addiction units and hospitals and raises suicide figures.

That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friends friends.

Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives.

On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a non-sentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee. It was the news show they had been waiting for. It was the show where the news could be all about them.

Tolstoy wrote, back in 1894, in The Kingdom of God Is Within You: The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place.

What was it about those silent exchanges in a crowded place? There was a magic to them, like a secret shared.

when you write with a pen it is like writing with a part of yourself like it is another finger.

A world where, in the words of American sociologist Sherry Turkle, "we expect more from technology and less from each other.

This was a life where she put four exclamation marks in a row. That was probably what happier, less uptight people did.

Answer emails while I should be listening to my mum talk about her trip to see a doctor. Feel the empty joy of likes and favorites.

Listen more than you talk.