57 Talking Quotes To Inspire

In an age where words hold immense power, finding the right ones can make all the difference. Whether it’s to spark motivation, encourage a friend, or simply to reflect upon meaningful thoughts, inspiring quotes offer us a wealth of insightful perspectives. We’ve gathered a curated collection of the top 57 talking quotes designed to uplift and inspire. These quotations are meant to resonate deeply, encouraging you to harness the transformative power of words. Dive in and let these expressions of wisdom and encouragement guide you on your journey toward inspiration and personal growth.

1. “When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.” - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

2. “I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me. ” - Nancy E. Turner

3. “No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves” - Hugh Prather

4. “Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.” - Hillary Frank

5. “Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.” - Jonathan Lethem

6. “Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and spread their disease to everything else. Better to bury it and move on.” - Brent Weeks

7. “Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.” - William Faulkner

8. “When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.” - Abraham Lincoln

9. “They could steam up windows with their kisses, but as soon as they started usingtheir mouths for other things—like talking—everything got so complicated.” - Lauren Kate

10. “I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.” - John Green

11. “In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.” - William Hazlitt

12. “If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.” - Eugene Mirman

13. “The thing he said aloud did not succeed.” - Tony Burgess

14. “Verbal hemophilia. Why can't I clot?” - Scott Mebus

15. “You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.” - Johnny Depp

16. “I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.” - David Levithan

17. “Whatever it is that you know, or that you don’t know, tell me about it. We can exchange tirades. The comma is my favorite piece of punctuation and I’ve got all night.” - Rasmenia Massoud

18. “Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.” - Tarjei Vesaas

19. “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.” - Bernard M. Baruch

20. “There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.” - Sarah Dessen

21. “I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.” - Lydia Davis

22. “Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.” - Maud Hart Lovelace

23. “Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.” - Maud Hart Lovelace

24. “I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.” - Wally Lamb

25. “When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.” - Shannon L. Alder

26. “How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.” - John Green

27. “And then a scholar said, "Speak of talking." And he answered, saying: "And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.” - Khalil Gibran

28. “But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.” - Don Roff

29. “You tell yourself to someone and they steal your soul. That's why I don't talk to anybody.” - Elizabeth Flock

30. “You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.” - Lucca Kaldahl

31. “...that's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.” - Lauren Dane

32. “She could talk. If she was a sphinx she could have talked, if she was a stone she could have talked. I wondered when she'd get tired and leave. Even after I stopped listening it was like being battered with tiny pingpong balls.” - Charles Bukowski

33. “In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.” - Edgar Allen Poe

34. “The thought of talking about it made Pueblo's gut ache, but then he thought of everything that Amy had been through – not that she'd told him her version yet. She had balls of steel, he thought with a smile. And what did he have? Three pairs of loin cloths going crisp on the radiator.” - Dianna Hardy

35. “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” - Neil Postman

36. “I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.” - Michael Thomas Ford

37. “Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.” - C.S. Lewis

38. “People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.” - Sandra Chami Kassis

39. “Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?''Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.” - Anne Brontë

40. “Let me alone," said Mildred"Let you alone!" He almost cried out with laughter. "Letting you alone is easy, but how can I leave myself alone? That's what's wrong. We need not to be let alone. We need to be upset and stirred and bothered, once in a while, anyway. Nobody bothers anymore. Nobody thinks. Let a baby alone, why don't you? What would you have in twenty years? A savage, unable to think or talk--like us!” - Ray Bradbury

41. “But saying stuff, even if it's good, isn't enough. Dad never did anything, he just talked about it. Even I knew you needed plans.” - Glenda Millard

42. “It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.” - Haruki Murakami

43. “Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.” - Dejan Stojanovic

44. “What we call life is only talk of nature.” - Dejan Stojanovic

45. “They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.” - Dejan Stojanovic

46. “Talking is not easy. Talking intends to convey what you mean. Lying is easy, not talking. When one lies, one doesnot care, and that’s the easy part.” - Ravindra Shukla

47. “The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.” - Ariel Gore

48. “...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.” - Marsha Norman

49. “Not everyone talks in words.” - Nema Al-Araby

50. “Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.” - Shannon L. Alder

51. “I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.” - Ida Løkås

52. “We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

53. “If your not brave enough to talk to a stranger how do you think they will become anything more then a stranger.” - Eden Griffith

54. “There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.” - Stieg Larsson

55. “We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence. That’s why now we love talking continuously!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

56. “We can't lose you," she said after a few moments of awkward as hell silence. "You have to understand that we aren't doing this because we don't care about Kat. We're doing this because we love you.""But I love her," I said without hesitation.Dee's eyes widened, probably since it was the first time she'd herd me say it out loud, well, about anyone other than my family. I wished I had said it more often, especially to Kat. Funny how that kind of shit always turns out in the end. While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late that you realize what you've should've said or done/It couldn't be too late. I knew that. The fact that I was still alive was testament to that. Like Dee said, though, there were worse things than death.” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

57. “Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.” - Neil Gaiman