Klaus Kinski Quotes

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Communication is important.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

I am not good at making people understand certain things.

I think it's always good to get into your partner's mindset.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me.

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it were, to his body, he is bound to act violently, extending his vocabulary with a weapon where there should have been an adjective.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

You have to really know what you're saying.