Quotes About Language

umiremo srazmerno broju rechi koje razbacujemo svuda oko sebe.oni koji govore nemaju tajni. a svi govorimo. izdajemo se, krchmimo dushu; svako se, kao dzhelat neizrecivog, upinje da unishti sve tajne, pochev od sopstvenih.

C? s-a spus totul, c? nu mai e nimic de spus — o ÅŸtim, o simÅ£im. Dar ceea ce simÅ£im mai puÅ£in e c? aceast? eviden?? confer? limbajului un statut straniu, chiar îngrijor?tor, care-l elibereaz?. Cuvintele sunt în sfîrÅŸit salvate, pentru c? au încetat s? tr?iasc?.

Tot ce este formulat, este ca intensitate degradat.

Despre nimic nu poÅ£i spune nimic. Iat? de ce e imposibil s? existe o limit? în privin? num?rului de c?rÅ£i.

Nu pot sa sufar sa explic,urasc pana si cuvantul.

I dream of a world where one could die for a comma.

FuncÅ£ia Cuvîntului în cosmogonii. Dumnezeu vorbeÅŸte iar lucrurile se fac. Este o viziune literar? a universului, pe care numai omul o putea concepe. Ne-ar pl?cea s? cunoaÅŸtem divagaÅ£iile cosmogonice ale unei creaturi mute.

ca s? treci de la limba român? la limba francez? e ca È™i cum ai trece de la o rug?ciune la un contract.

Aforismul e cultivat doar de cei care au cunoscut frica "în mijlocul" cuvintelor, frica de a se n?rui împreun? cu "toate cuvintele".

Când omul va putea vorbi de am?giri ca de realit??i, atunci el va fi mântuit.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

We know, we feel that everything has been said, that there is nothing left to say. But we feel less that this truth affords language a strange, even unsettling status which redeems it. Words are ultimately saved because they have ceased living.

The most effective way to avoid dejection, motivated or gratuitous, is to take a dictionary, preferably of a language you scarcely know, and to look up word after word in it, making sure they are the kind you will never use.

We should keep to a single language, and deepen our knowledge of it at every opportunity. For a writer, gossiping with a concierge in his own is much more profitable than arguing with a scholar in a foreign tongue.

What is the point of what we say? Is there any meaning to this series of propositions which constitutes our talk? And do these propositions, taken one by one, have any object? We can talk only if we set aside this question, or if we raise it as infrequently as possible.

I believe speech to be a recent invention, and find it hard to imagine a dialogue that dates back beyond ten thousand years. And even harder, a dialogue that will occur in not ten thousand but even a thousand years from now.

If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal!

Apaixonado pelos vocábulos, odiava os mistérios dos silêncios pesados e os tornava leves e puros: e ele próprio tornou-se leve e puro, já que aliviado e purificado de tudo. O vício de definir fez dele um assassino gracioso e uma vítima discreta.

As long as you live on this side of the terrible, you will find words to express it; once you know it from inside, you will no longer find a single one.

It is no nation that we inhabit, but a language." "Make no mistake; our native tongue is our true fatherland.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

On devrait s'en tenir à un seul idiome, et en approfondir lamconnaissance à chaque occasion. Pour un écrivain, bavarder avec une concierge est bien plus profitable que s'entretenir avec un savant dans une langue étrangère.

The great systems are actually no more than brilliant tautologies. What advantage is it to know that the nature of being consists in the 'will to live,' in 'idea,' or in the whim of God or of Chemistry? A mere proliferation of words, subtle displacements of meanings. What is loathes the verbal embrace, and our innermost experience reveals us nothing beyond the privileged and inexpressible moment. Moreover, Being itself is only a pretension of Nothingness.

A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after the autopsy, is less than a corpse.