Speechlessness Quotes

#1. I had understood that our knowledge is primarily a practised ritual that serves to conceal our speechlessness in the face of the real. I had learned that the more clearly we construct our sentences, the less we understand about what actually has happened or is still happening.

Rita Kuczynski

#2. The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

Winston Churchill

#3. Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop.

Elfriede Jelinek

#4. In the last fifteen minutes, she'd knocked him flat on his back, reduced him to speechlessness, and for the first time in his life, made him wonder if lightning strikes from fate weren't metaphysical bullshit.

Angel Payne

#5. When had his heart ever felt this full? There were no words. That was the problem. He loved her with speechlessness.

Sondra Kraak

#6. All writing is a sin against speechlessness,' Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.

Tim Parks

#7. The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

Volkmar Sigusch

#8. He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.

Sarah MacLean

#9. Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilerated speechlessness.

Yann Martel

#10. I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

Tennessee Williams

#11. Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Samuel Johnson

#12. Which isn't, like, as bad as it sounds, because the general public kind of sucks ass.

Christopher Moore

#13. Becoming a mother has made me even more aware and more passionate about nutrition and wellness. So much so that I am now a certified health coach practitioner.

Miranda Kerr

#14. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Ronald Reagan

#15. I [Pigpen] grew up in their clubhouse. I understand you because I am you. I also learned to crawl on the sticky floors of where guys made their oaths. But here's the difference, I grew up watching people make stupid mistakes in the name of revenge.

Katie McGarry

#16. Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

Chanakya

#17. Those are the things in the water that keep the moon in orbit. I've never quite understood just how they work. You mostly can't see the moon during the day, so they can't be very efficient.

Matthew Goldman

#18. I would say to those who don't like the metaphor This is reality.

Eliot Spitzer