Quotes About Muteness

I don't speak," he wrote, "I'm sorry.

I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.

I knew I would be forever isolated, desolate, useless. Life? To be born for no reason, to suffer constantly, to die ignorant. God? Extant but unreachable. Blind, deaf, and mute for His creatures. Human society? A prison filled with lunatics, thieves, and drunks.

even language is a kind of muteness, that everything is at an irrevocable distance; it made him wish to cross incomprehensible farnesses and yet simultaneously know he couldn't, he was hobbled, shackled. It was the nature of things, we are all shackled, hobbled.

I can't tell you a thing.

It's no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,' she muttered.

Words, Words, Words—they do not reach me.

Is this muteness a real physical handicap? One of the many symptoms of being Dead?Or do we just have nothing left to say?

As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

I often think my life would be a lot easier if I were a mute.

La ausencia de sonido puede ser peor que cualquier grito

Anxiety can just as well express itself by muteness as by a scream.

Nu am nimic de spus nim?nui,am intrat de mult? vreme în Incomunicabil.

I would stare at the statue's distant shape, perhaps daring it to do something—strike me down if it wanted, or show some other sign of sentience—and, after an uneventful interregnum, I would turn away, never with satisfaction. The statue seemed to mock me with its muteness and its immobility, as though offering the promise, if of anything, not of redemption, but rather of a reckoning, and at a time of its choosing, not of mine.

I saw then what I hadn't seen before, that I was very good at despising slavery in the abstract, in the removed and anonymous masses, but in the concrete, intimate flesh of the girl beside me, I'd lost the ability to be repulsed by it. I'd grown comfortable with the particulars of evil. There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.

all was eclipsed in sinister muteness

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

There is a whisper of light if you can hear Louder than sound of darknessyou never fear Numb sky's muteness leaves you hard of hearingSenses wish to fly feelings disappearing

I tell myself I talk to Friday to educate him out of darkness and silence. But is that the truth? There are times when benevolence deserts me and I use the words only as the shortest way to subject him to my will. At such times I understand why Cruso preferred not to disturb his muteness. I understand, that is to say, why a man will choose to be a slaveowner. Do you think less of me for this confession?

With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself- in defiance of all the world's muteness.

Too late,' said Valentine. 'Tragedies are like that,' said Ender. 'And their tragic flaw was … muteness?' 'Their tragic flaw was arrogance – they thought they could terraform any world that didn't have intelligence of the kind they knew how to recognize – beings that spoke to each other mind to mind.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.