Marguerite Duras Quotes

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.

The wrong words are impossible when there are no words.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth.

As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

One word from you shall silence me forever.

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

I've nothing to say.

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think I’m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally I’m talking really slowly or there’s a lot of silence because there’s just nothing going on. I’m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like I’m in control.

Less pains in the world a man cannot take than to bold his tongue.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

I can direct things but I can't write. My memory is going, so I struggle for words.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

You can't improve on saying nothing.

Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at 'hello'.

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

And things go unsaid soon get forgotten

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language.