talking Quotes

“So soon as I talk I express the universal, and if I do not do so, no one can understand me.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:understanding talking

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk—real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

topic:talking romance

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression . . . that gives reality to things.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:reality talking

“Every one needs to talk to some one . . . Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone.”

― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

topic:loneliness talking

“Most people don’t know how to appreciate silence. They can’t help talking.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

topic:talking silence

“I sit down beside her and she talks—a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:love happiness talking

“Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

topic:talking

“I like talking to a brick wall—it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:talking contradiction

“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness; and where will you find this but in woman?”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

topic:women talking

“He thought much but said little, unless it was to call loudly for men to bring him fire and food.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

topic:thought talking food

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