Quotes About Communication

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.

Je mets pas mal de choses d'abord sur mon papier ; ensuite j'ajoute la simplicité.

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world. That is what he wishes to say. He is right. You may always explain: you never are understood.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

God created for you two eyes and two ears but one tongue so that you say half what you see and hear.

The more wine gets through your mouth the more silly words come out of it.

Whom do we speak to, and how do we encode our messages? How can we be heard or read, even after we are dead?

To keep a story on a shelf or to remember then retell it means that it will be more likely to exist to those who come after we have gone.

Who taught you to swear first? Who burst your head wide open with a sentence? Whose linguistic tics have you ingested, do you know, bust out without thinking

whatever problem you have with someone, project yourself into the other person and see it from their point of view.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.

Quiero que la gente se calle tan pronto deje de sentir

The act of love and the act of poetry Are not compatible With the reading aloud of a newspaper

Hacía mucho tiempo que yo había dejado de entenderme con Nadja. Lo cierto es que quizás nunca nos hemos entendido, al menos acerca de la manera deafrontar las cosas sencillas de la existencia.

Please do not understand me too quickly.

On ne peut pas faire un art qui parle aux masses quand on n'a rien à leur dire, mais nous luttons ensemble, nous voulons faire une autre vie ensemble, et nous avons tout à nous dire.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.