Conversation Quotes

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if you seal it up, that the pain's gonna go away?

Say what you mean, mean what you say. You know, if everybody followed that rule, there would be a lot less trouble.

Narrator: When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just…
Marla: …instead of just waiting for their turn to speak.

Never talk about your problems 'cause men don't really listen or care. No, some men pretend to care. When we ask how you're doing, it's just guy code for "let me stick my dick in your ass

— You don't tell me things, Joel. I'm an open book. I tell you everything. Every damn embarrassing thing. You don't trust me.
— You don't have to be afraid of silence, Clementine. Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.
— I don't do that. I want to know you. I don't constantly talk. Jesus. People have to share things. That's what intimacy is. I'm really pissed that you said that to me.
— I'm sorry. I just don't have anything very interesting about my life.

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Clementine Kruczynski

I don't know if you've ever done it, but it's sort of hard to sit around waiting for somebody to say something when they're thinking and all.

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J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield

Human, People

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings — nor loose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much.

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Rudyard Kipling

Motivational Quotes

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

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Samuel Johnson

Silence

— I've gotten used to not speaking unless I have something to say.
— If nobody spoke unless they had something to say... the human race would soon lose the power of speech.

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The Painted Veil (2006)

Kitty Fane

I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner.

Cannibalism, Cannibals

Dark, Gloomy Quotes

And we never say anything... unless it is worth taking... a long time to say.

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The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers

Treebeard

Preterition

"Sometimes I sneak around and listen... and do you know what?"
"What?"
"People don't talk about anything."

Just play something. If talking did shit, we'd be out of here by now.

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Girl, Interrupted

Lisa Row

Molly, please don't feel the need to make conversation, it's really not your area.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

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