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Quotes About Speechless

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
~ Gracie Allen
Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examination, as we see by rendering the statements concerned, just as they stand in examination and diagnosis: If thou examinest a man having a wound in the temple, ...; if thou ask of him concerning his malady and he speak not to thee; ...; thou shouldst say concerning him, 'One having a wound in his temple, ... (and) he is speechless'.
~ James Henry Breasted
Every time I see your face, I'm at a lose for words. And sometimes they've lost me. Perhaps one of these days I'll say a little more.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
There are some feelings, and actions, for which words are utterly useless.
~ James Patterson
I was speechless. Which is, as you know, very rare.
~ James Patterson
What did the leopard say after eating its trainer?
~ James Patterson
Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
~ Thomas Frank
My grief no heart, my thoughts no tongue can tell.
~ Thomas Kyd
I can't smile. I'm amazed. I'm floored. I'm shocked.
~ Tim Green
I was doing one of my first plays at the Royal Court, and Matt LeBlanc came to see the play. He came backstage afterwards, and I couldn't speak. I kept trying to, but no words came out. I just kept thinking, 'That's Joey from 'Friends.' That's actual Joey from 'Friends!'' It was so embarrassing!
~ Bel Powley
Wang-mu fell silent, but not because she was embarrassed. She simply had nothing to say, and therefore said nothing.
~ Orson Scott Card
Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.
~ Cornelia Funke
went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream.
~ Walter Mosley
I went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream.
~ Walter Mosley
When he was finished, he left without so much as a word.
~ Charles Martin
They're going to shoot him. You have to say something. But how can you? You don't have any lines.
~ Charles Yu
I can't really articulate what I feel
~ Harold Pinter
Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets, Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning, A jest falls from the speechless caravan.
~ Hart Crane
Sometimes words are not enough.
~ Lemony Snicket
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.
~ Lemony Snicket
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
~ Jane Austen
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
~ Jane Austen
Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
~ Jane Austen