Theodore Dreiser Quotes

We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve.

Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

I write with all my heart

I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.

Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

Male silence is not the same as listening

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

Sometimes words are not enough.