Anthony Quinn Quotes

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.

David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.

Really? Screaming?” He shrugged. “It wasn’t that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse.” “Worse than screaming?” I said. “Much,” he said, nodding. “I mean, at least with an argument, you know what’s happening. Or have some idea. Silence is… it could be anything. It’s just –” “So freaking loud,” I finished for him. He pointed at me. “Exactly.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Well, I don't have anything to say to Mr. Sneddon, you know? Nothing at all.

It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

My mom and I have always had issues.

Supposedly I'm impossible to talk to. But it's honestly not me being difficult. Sometimes you just don't have a lot to say.

My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

I never had a real conversation with my father.