In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
I don't think that the spoken words solve everything. Sometimes silence delivers truer feelings while the words can distort the meaning in some situations.
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
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