Ingrid Bergman Quotes

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.

One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

It can be very lonely knowing that you have things to say but you daren't say them. Knowing that you could contribute to something but you don't dare quite do it.

I have the impression that every word is a word too many. I'm constantly holding myself back.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.

Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.