Robert Benton Quotes

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything

Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

Emotions in the men in my family run deep.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

I want to start where language ends.

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

This was the reason there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day.

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies.

Maybe you're a singer or not, but what taps into the soul leads to the heart, and that's really what I came away with, with the starting point for the record being that I could speak as a human being and feel things very deeply.

We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in.

Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be said; maybe every relationship started over every time two people came together.

The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.

He took a few steps before responding. "You are special," he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder if he wanted to add something else.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.