Clarissa Pinkola Estes Quotes

Your very silence shows you agree.

Male silence is not the same as listening

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

I think communication starts when words are not present at all ... I think we put so much emphasis on language, actually silence is so much more important.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

Don't say yes until I finish talking.

People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it makes me sad to think they are unable to hear the voice of my silence.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

Silence is a form of communication, too. Sometimes less is more.

How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.

What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.

Carlos, are we in complete understanding with each other?” “Yeah,” I say. “As long as it’s not in your house and you don’t know about it, you’re okay with us messin’ around.” “I know you’re joking with me. You are joking with me, aren’t you?” “Maybe.