E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

As a man, I have no problem saying I was hurt.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.'

We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don't easily express our heartache or show our wounds.

For a long time in my adolescence, comedy was the only tool I had for communication and dealing with the world and dealing with people - I didn't know any other lens in which to do it.

I just know what I go through, and I know how to speak on it in an interesting way.

I honestly always really try to get people to share their feelings. I always say to everyone that communication is key.

Nowadays, it's so silly to not express your feelings, as long as you respect peoples' spaces and respect their limits. You have to live your life in peace, and no one has anything to do with that.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

I do know there is a lot of pain sometimes but you need to deal with it and communicate what you're feeling.

I feel like sometimes we just need to speak more about what we're going through.