V. S. Naipaul Quotes

Though my heart is filled with feelings I want to convey You see, I can't express them in words If I had not met you I wouldn't even have such an embarrassing pain

I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.

What cannot be said, will get wept.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.

There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.

Art is only a way of expressing pain.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

We cannot get to our knowledge because the world is too loud. And we tend to make it louder as we cry out in pain, pretending we are singing.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.

If I'm dead," he murmured. "Why does it hurt so much?

My tears speak for me.

Under the seams runs the pain.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.