96 Speechless Quotes

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Famous Speechless Quotes

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother. — Robyn

The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness. — Winston Churchill

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified. - Talib Kweli

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified. — Talib Kweli

For some moments in life there are no words. — David Seltzer

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. — Muhammad Ali

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. - Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. — Emily Dickinson

Silence is better than unmeaning words. - Pythagoras

Silence is better than unmeaning words. — Pythagoras

Nothing at times is more expressive than silence. — George Eliot

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Silence has so much meaning. - American Indian Proverbs

Silence has so much meaning. — American Indian Proverbs

Being silent for a while is good. Words can't really express a person's emotions. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? — Marcel Marceau

Surely silence can sometimes be the most eloquent reply. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen. — Rumi

Silence is more than just a lack of words. — Egyptian Proverbs

Short Speechless Quotes

  • Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta
  • My conversations with God always seem leave him speechless. — Big K.R.I.T.
  • Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance. — Ralph Neas
  • If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless. — John Hume
  • I am speechless: I have no speech — Jerry Seinfeld
  • Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless. — Rumi
  • Has my tale turned you speechless? Come, curse me or kiss me or call me a liar. Something. — George R. R. Martin
  • Happiness is speechless. — George William Curtis
  • Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. — James Baldwin
  • The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths. — Anne Desclos

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Speechless quote Traveling - It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Traveling - It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

I Am Speechless Quotes

PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family — Sam Claflin

I came down the long road, even before I got here. Just to be where I am today is already a positive in my life. But to have something like this happen to me as well, I'm speechless. — Shawne Merriman

Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky. — Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless. — Bob Hope

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you. — Marie Howe

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am. — Simone Elkeles

Breathless Quotes

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly. — Erma Bombeck

For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly. — Carlos Castaneda

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. - Soren Kierkegaard

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. — Rupert Brooke

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful. — Howard Thurman

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance. — Josephine Baker

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. — Ingmar Bergman

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die. — Jean-Luc Godard

Where did you learn to kiss like that?” I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again. “I said I was a virgin, not a monk,” he said, kissing me again. “If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask. — Diana Gabaldon

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. — Jean-Luc Godard

Wordless Quotes

I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere. — Pearl Primus

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire. — James Turrell

this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars. — Walt Whitman

I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the light of this feeling. It is as though I wrote in a foreign language that I am suddenly able to read. Wordlessly, she explains me to myself. LIke genius she is ignorant of what she does. — Jeanette Winterson

The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven And you will know the language Of my wordless poems And will come to me For that is why I dance. — Ruth St. Denis

A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories. — Michel De Certeau

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute. — Saint Augustine

Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist. — Michael Jackson

Wordless is not the same of expressionless. All phenomenon of the universe, audible and inaudible, tangible and intangible, sentient and insentient, are the clear and ceaseless expression of the buddha nature. — John Daido Loori

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More Speechless Quotes

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you." — Max Lucado

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us. — Oswald Chambers

Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify. — C. I. Scofield

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. — Robert Schumann

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. — Ellen Hopkins

For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can replace houses. You can't replace people. I mean, it's left me speechless. I was talking to P.J. (Brown) about it. When the storm hit, I just kept it on CNN and watched the whole thing. Just seeing Canal Street, knowing I was there just a few days before storm and seeing all those stores I went in being under water. Unbelievable. — Chris Paul

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. — Jean De La Bruyere

What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us? — T. S. Eliot

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion! — Boris Pasternak

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it. — Michael Heizer

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir. — Alexander Blok

…made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless. — Nelson Demille

It has been rumored that "Psycho" is so terrifying that it will scare some people speechless. Some of my men hopefully sent their wives to a screening. The women emerged badly shaken but still vigorously vocal. — Alfred Hitchcock

Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop. — Elfriede Jelinek

Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless. — J. K. Rowling

One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and revelation they are-if he be such, I say, he will stand, for more than a moment, speechless with something akin to that which made the morning stars sing together. — George Macdonald

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain. — Anton Szandor LaVey

If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision. — Thomas Merton

I've been meeting with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino for years, trying to figure out how to fix the concert industry. We're all so overpaid. It's ridiculous. People stopped going to concerts because they can't afford them. The Rolling Stones are charging $650 per ticket! That just makes me speechless. I love the Stones, but I won't be attending. — Kid Rock

The fact is that the more we take flight upward [to God], the more our words are confined to the ideas we are capable of forming; so that now as we plunge into that darkness which is beyond intellect, we shall find ourselves not simply running short of words but actually speechless and unknowing. — Pope Dionysius

Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. — David Sedaris

Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty. — Charlie Chaplin

I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first time since I'd known him, he was speechless. He stared up at me like I was everything he ever wanted. — Ann Aguirre

I don’t leave her speechless very often. I have to enjoy those rare moments. — Rick Riordan

Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. — Yann Martel

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it. — Louisa May Alcott

To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened. — Robert C. Murphy

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years. — Libby Trickett

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