Quotes About Communication

Very well. I understand. Just ... shut up!

I did call you a pair of overdeveloped, single-cell Cro-Magnons." "Did you?" "Well I have now." "Nobody calls me an overdeveloped, single-bell crow magnet." "No. I bet nobody does.

Whatever pain achieves, it achieves in part through its unsharability, and it ensures this unsharability through its resistance to language. "English," writes Virginia Woolf, "which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear has no words for the shiver or the headache." … Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it.

may feel obligated to keep a low profile in an attempt to establish some sense of harmony. Unfortunately, at the same time, you may also be giving up opportunities to express your opinions and assert your needs.

The ultimate weapon for the abusive individual is the refusal to communicate directly....

And from what you've told me, Brian does an excellent job in that role, but a big dick ain't everything nor is licking you senseless with a thick tongue.

Frente al espejo aprendió las palabras y las risas. Cuando se casó, Justino acaparó las palabras y los espejos y ella atravesó unos años silenciosos y borrados en los que se movía como una ciega, sin entender lo que sucedía a su alrededor. La única memoria que tenía de esos años era que no tenía ninguna. No había sido ella la que atravesó ese tiempo de temor y silencio.

En aquel entonces también las palabras me parecieron de piedra, solo que de piedra fluida y cristalina. La piedra se solidificaba al terminar cada palabra, para quedar escrita para siempre en el tiempo. ¿No eran así las palabras de tus mayores?

No seas estúpida! —exclamó. Su hermana lo irritaba.

Supersticiosa, tocaba los objetos para comunicarse con el mundo aparente y cogía un libro o un salero como punto de apoyo para no caer en el vacío. Así establecía un fluido mágico entre la Isabel real y la Isabel irreal y se sentía consolada.

Entre el poder de la oración y las palabras que la contenían existía la misma distancia que entre las dos Isabeles:

Some things exist only because they're talked about.

Feeling angry is natural; you have a right to feel angry. Expressing this anger is the most important lesson to be learned. How do you get rid of all the poisonous, furious feelings you have without hurting yourself or others?

Anger can be a problem if you find yourself on the receiving end of it. Because you witnessed violent anger, you expect all arguments or expressions of angry feelings to result in violence. This is simply not the case. Many of you grew up without a middle ground for expressing anger - it was either not expressed, or exploded into violence. A middle ground is safe anger expression. (See Chapter VI).

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well.

How unfair, he thought; I can close my mouth whenever I like, as tight as I like, and what has a mouth to say? It is there for taking in nourishment, yet it is well defended, but ears - ears are a prey to every onslaught.

At home in the nursery, I usually played alone. Actually, I seldom played, I spoke to the wallpaper. The many dark circles in the pattern of the wallpaper seemed like people to me. I made up stories in which they appeared, either I told them the stories or they played with me, I never got tired of the wallpaper people and I could talk to them for hours.

Un seul beau son est plus beau qu'un long parler.

Denn schließlich ist man nicht verpflichtet auf die Dummheiten jedes Passanten einzugehen. Sich in reden zu verlieren ist die größte Gefahr die einen Gelehrten bedroht.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

A word is worth a thousand pictures.

We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.