Language Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

“Silence is a language not all people understand.”

— Abdel Halim Boudekhana

“They sensed that nothing needed to be said. In silence, minds understand each other.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“People, they misunderstood the word “accent.” They thought accents were those things everybody else had.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a…

— Jack Schaefer

“And it is hard, I imagine, for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of that silence and how the absence…

— Daisy Hernandez

“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.”

— Jodi Picoult

“It was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“Only those who don't know the language of silence - express in words!” ”

— Ramana Pemmaraju

“So I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible…

— Samuel Beckett

“The silence that hung between them was thick: it felt like it had its own pulse, its own insidious intentions.”

— Lauren Gilley

“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”

— E.M. Forster

“I tried to talk like them, cursing and cussing, mutilating the English language into a slang that I could barely stand nor understand.”

— Carol Wambui Ngabura