Sarah Kay Quotes

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

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

I have no message.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

You say it best, when you say nothing at all.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

You can't be silent and create silence in being silent. So you have to create silence or, rather, the effect of silence, through words.

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

I am interested in silences

We live and breathe words.

Her silence was the blank space between the words.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to wipe ourselves off the earth. But I think that all the arts are needed, and sports too, and cooking, food, and all these different ways of communication. Smiles, looking into eyes directly, all these different means of communication are needed to save this world. But certainly a great melody

Yes, time can be buoyed by wordlessness, but it needs to be anchored in words.