Quotes About Speechless

One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that - chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless, said Jem carefully. Doesn't that sound nice?

Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.

There was nothing I could say, so I said nothing.

I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into a large frying pan.

Gratitude is a rare frame of mind; and those who are grateful can seldom find a way to express what they feel. They are overwhelmed by silence; are shamefaced; and, sometimes, actually try to hide their feelings.

Él miró sin proferir palabra. También a él algo le cortaba el habla. Finalmente dejó la vela sobre la cómoda, y enseguida el juego de sombras que aleteaba en el espacio como un murciélago se tranquilizó.

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

They were what the Americans, bless them! call dumb.

What a bright sunny day, and I don't know what to say...

he lifted his eyes. The eternal kind went out of his shoulder. He opened his mouth and closed it again, speechless with outrage, joy, and wonder. Then he burst into tears.

Oh," was all Henry could find to say.

the more i love the less i talk, because no word in the world powerful enough to express how i feel.

Miraculously, Pitka survived. "I don't know why I set that durn gun against the tree," he said later. (Actually, what he said was, "Mrffff mmmpg nnnmmm mffffffn," on account of having no lips, teeth, nose, tongue, or other vocal apparatus.)

I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

He became almost speechless for a minute, and then went on, Do you know what the place is? Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy, with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and ever speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo? Have you felt the Vampire's lips upon your throat?

But the sound that came out of his mouth was no sound at all; it was the emptied skin of sound without flesh or bones.

I'm so jealous I can't speak.

The word within a word, unable to speak a word

Leadenly he sank down on her again, his face in Chenti's pillow, his body slack, weakened as never before, in a deathlike speechless aftermath where thought ran all too free.

No one knows how dark the night is until you can't speak into it.

He shook his head, examining the wound again. It's not frostbitten, he muttered. It'll blister, but you should be fine. You might only lose a couple fingers. I glanced at him sharply, but he was smirking. For a moment, I was speechless. Good God, the Ice Prince was making jokes now; the world must be ending.

Kabîr says: "Knowing it, the ignorant man becomes wise, and the wise man becomes speechless and silent, The worshipper is utterly inebriated, His wisdom and his detachment are made perfect; He drinks from the cup of the inbreathings and the outbreathings of love.

In 1999, when Ted Williams came out and saluted the fans at the All Star Game at Fenway, I had a huge lump in my throat, and the producer is yelling in my ear to talk, and I couldn't, thankfully, and it was much better.

I am speechless: what can I answer? I put hand on my mouth. I have said too much already; now I will speak no more.