Lost For Words Quotes

“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose, and she never finishes the statement. It seems right, that her words should fall into oblivion; after all, she—like me, like everyone—has no words for what follows, for the unknowable, only her hopes and prayers and an unwavering faith in something more.”
― Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Resist

“I’m talking to the only one who’ll listen
About the lonely nights and all that I’m missin
Haven’t seen you lately but I heard your doin fine
I’m In between two places
Where my words didn’t come to you in time”
― Eric Overby, February Rain: Lyrics of a Lonely Traveler

“Henry, who is in every other respect exactly what a brother should be, who loves me, consults me, confides in me, and will talk to me by the hour together, has never yet turned the page in a letter; and very often it is nothing more than, "Dear Mary, I am just arrived. Bath seems full, and every thing as usual. Your's sincerely.' That is the true manly style; that is a complete brother's letter.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“there was a big old shocked space in my head where the thoughts ought to be”
― Stephanie butland, Lost For Words

“Fading into the space between the times
Since their last phrase to each other,
Their love vocalized,
But now the pain’s localized ,
It’s been fastened to the focal eye
Of the absence in his voice,
Closed captions of the passionate goodbye

What was the last thing he’d said to her?
It’s on the tip of her tongue,
She can’t remember what she’d heard,
Vowels ripped and consonants undone,
Stuck in the space between words,
Muted language that refuses to come

The silence stands between them,
Engulfed in a vast distance in time.
She would trade in an instant,
His syllables for the silence
In the depths of her mind.”
― Eric Overby, Hourglass in Grace