Quotes About Language

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.

The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

I believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Is there another word for synonym?

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in order to behave decently.

Life would split apart without letters.

life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.