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Quotes About Speechless

Poor Edward muttered something; but what it was, nobody knew, not even himself.
~ Jane Austen
This is a little awkward, I said, but my mother just ran over the rabbit. Ran over? As in roadkill. We're not sure what to do about it. Where are you? Giovichinni's, buying lunch meat. And the rabbit? Gone. He was with two other guys. They scooped him up off the road and drove away with him. There was a long silence on the phone. I'm fucking speechless, Morelli finally said.
~ Janet Evanovich
I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
I tried to utter, but could not. The tongue had got all tangled up with the uvula, and the brain seemed paralyzed. I was feeling the same stunned feeling which, I imagine, Chichester Clam must have felt as the door of the potting shed slammed and he heard Boko starting to yodel without -- a nightmare sensation of being but a helpless pawn in the hands of Fate.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
It was perfectly amazing, the way her mere presence seemed to wipe speech from my lips—and mine, for that matter, from hers. It began to look as if our married life together would be rather like twenty years among the Trappist monks.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Mr. Crocker was swallowing convulsively, as if testing his larynx with a view to speech. Like Saul of Tarsus, he had been stricken dumb by the sudden bright light which his wife's words had caused to flash upon him.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.
~ Pablo Neruda
The light wraps you in its mortal flame. Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way Against the old propellers of the twilight That revolves around you. Speechless, my friend, Alone in the loneliness of this hour of the dead And filled with the lives of fire, Pure heir of the ruined day.
~ Pablo Neruda
Protection of the cow means protection of the whole dumb creation of God. The appeal of the lower order of creation is all the more forceful because it is speechless." 6
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
There are no words. There are no words for what I felt when I saw the setting sun rise.
~ Pat Barker
Ik wachtte tot Hekabe zou spreken, maar ze zei niets. Misschien dat ze, oog in oog met dit uitzicht, woorden zo'n gedevalueerd ruilmiddel vond dat ze het als verloren moeite beschouwde ze nog te gebruiken.
~ Pat Barker
He just stood and looked at his dying mother, his heart too full for words.
~ William Faulkner
But many have to look on in silence at what distresses them.
~ Chrétien de Troyes
Something the size of a fist was in my throat and it was catching the words and not letting them out. I started to panic. Why couldn't I speak?
~ Helen Macdonald
My feelings for you shame me into silence.
~ Henry Rollins
But the father answered never a word,A frozen corpse was he.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She was one of those creatures which seem only not to speak because the mechanism of their mouth does not allow them to.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Podobno bardzo onieÅ›miela ludzi, gdy? nigdy nic nie mówi.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I shall have nowt to talk to now the baby is boiled.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If I am a wound would love be my salve? If I am speechless would love be a mouth?
~ Jeanette Winterson
I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton... and at the same time, no less! I'm not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.
~ Megan Hilty
No horror on earth or elsewhere could equal watching your own offspring open his mouth and have nothing come out.
~ David Foster Wallace
Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins
~ William Shakespeare