Muted Expression Quotes

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

I generally think that I should only speak by action and not by words.

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

I am aware that somewhere along the line, I've subconsciously turned down the pitch of my speech, like a silencer of a gun that softens the sound of its firing. Now, even when I yell, I don't feel like I am using my full voice.

Well. Then we had the irises, rising beautiful and cool on their tall stalks, like blown glass, like pastel water momentarily frozen in a splash, light blue, light mauve, and the darker ones, velvet and purple, black cat's ears in the sun, indigo shadow, and the bleeding hearts, so female in shape it was a surprise they'd not long since been rooted out. There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.