#co

A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#mouth #star #communication

When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#communication #language #communication

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#communication

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively. ↗

— Walter Pater

#communication

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#war #communication

Words have power. ↗

— Mira Grant

#language #persuasion #power #words #communication

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. ↗

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

#violence #communication

We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share. ↗

— Rania Al-Abdullah

#communication

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there. ↗

— David Levithan

#honesty #lies #truth #communication

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#communication