Quotes About Language

There are hundreds of thoughts per every word spoken, and that's if they're spoken at all.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words?

When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.

All that remained was to get to camp, learn English better, find a job and a place to live. Then, most importantly, buy a bookshelf. And a piano.

Words are so heavy.

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without words, the Fuhrer was nothing.

I love and hate this place because it is full of words.

When Liesel left that day, she said something with great uneasiness. In translation, two giant words were struggled with, carried on her shoulder, and dropped as a bungling pair at Ilsa Hermann's feet. They fell off sideways as the girl veered with them and could no longer sustain their weight. Together, they sat on the floor, large and loud and clumsy. Two giant words...I'm sorry.

He odiado las palabras y las he amado, y espero haber estado a su altura..

They were virtuosos of alliteration and didn't know it.

What good are the words?

I didn't know words could be so heavy.

When Liesel left that day, she said something with great uneasiness. In translation, two giant words were struggled with, carried on her shoulder and dropped as a bungling pair at Ilsa Hermann's feet. They fell off sideways as the girl veered with them and could no longer sustain their weight. Together, they sat on the floor, large and loud, and clumsy.

los libros y las palabras no sólo comenzaron a tener algún significado, sino que lo significaban todo.

Ignoraba que las palabras pudieran pesar tanto.

Feuer soll'n's brunzen fur einen Monat!' she heard her call out. Translation: 'They should all piss fire for a month!

Los mejores recolectores de palabras eran los que comprendían el verdadero poder de las palabras, los que subían más alto.

Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor's wife at her husband's desk, she felt an innate sense of power. It happened every time she deciphered a new word or pieced together a sentence.

I have loved words, I have hated them, and I hope I have used them well.

She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words. That's why she could climb higher than anyone else. She had desire. She was hungry for them.

There was once a strange small man but there was a word shaker too.

THE BEST word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They are the ones who could climb the highest.

Burning words were torn from their sentences.