Conveying Thoughts Quotes

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

Writing is always harder than talking.

People find a way in which they can say something.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on