Quotes about Expression

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

Her somewhat overly round head was wedged deep within her shoulders on a short body; it sat right upon it, as though there had never been such a thing as a neck, what a superfluous contraption.

If anyone was ever cognizant of the need and function of 'litanies', it was Kafka.

Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words.

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

You walk out in the evening with a woman, you tell her that she is beautiful and you love her, and twenty centuries hear what you are saying.

If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right to express her anger and her sorrow and her bewilderment and her rage, and generally to disintegrate. These were not the expectations of her friends and family. Nothing could have been further from her expectations of herself. Instead, she threw herself into serving others.