Quotes About Communication

Nan worked very hard. We didn't speak, but her breaths are a vocabulary. When she's concentrating, her tongue moves across her bottom lip as if polishing it. The air in the back of her throat laps, tide-like.

to me that people across the globe

Anguish is the universal language

Each poet creates an expatriate space, a slightly skewed domain where things are freshly felt because they are freshly said.

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Top tip 4: Somtimes you're lying when you say nothing at all

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

If it is very painful for you to criticize your friends, you are safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that is the time to hold your tongue

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

they are aware of having been misunderstood as children, they feel that the fault lay with them and with their inability to express themselves appropriately.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

I can't translate myself into language any more.

Because we rejected a certain kind of critical language people just assumed that we were dumb

you see all night in your dreams. And the blue of my voice can't help but see you.

I am the only language I can understand.

You talk to me in your sleep, the only time you talk to me.

I don't want to speak this language that doesn't know me.

because you already know what I mean. You read my mind.

I am able to reach someone by thinking towards them, partly in words. I send forth my thoughts.