Quotes About Words

What are your drawn to?" ... "Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something.

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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

A senior BBC music programmer smarmed up to me and took this opportunity to remind me of my diminished status in his petty universe, "Of course, you'd have had a lot more hits if you'd just taken out all the sevenths and minor chords." I suppose I would have had even more, if I'd only taken out all of the music entirely and most of the words, too.

True love is meant to be seen more in your actions/attitudes towards all & sundry and less in your speeches/words towards them.

True love ought to be more in actions and less in words. -Emeasoba George

You tend to attract or encounter what you often think and speak of. So, do think and speak positively and never negatively. -Emeasoba George

You tend to attract/encounter what you often do think/speak of. So,think/speak positively,never negatively.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Dup? orice conversaÅ£ie, eÅŸti mai p?r?sit ca în mormânt. Å¢i?ai uÅŸurat spiritul ÅŸi Å£i?a putrezit inima. Vorbele au zburat în vânt ÅŸi cu ele substanÅ£a izol?rii tale.

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?.

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

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

There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.

It is because of speech that men give the illusion of being free. If they did — without a word — what they do, we would take them for robots. By speaking, they deceive themselves, as they deceive others: because they say what they are going to do, who could suspect they are not masters of their actions?

The truth we do not always pursue; but when we do so passionately, violently, we hate whatever is expression, whatever derives from words and forms, all the noble lies, even further from the truth than the vulgar ones.

The philosophers' originality comes down to inverting terms. Since there are only three or four attitudes by which to confront the world – and about as many ways of dying – the nuances which multiply and diversify them derive from no more than the choice of words, bereft of any metaphysical range. We are engulfed in a pleonastic universe, in which the questions and answers amount to the same thing.

Zi dup? zi, m? târ?sc pe o bucat? de spaÈ›iu, la marginea Universului, în mijlocul unei infinit??i de cuvinte nepronunÈ›ate.

Em prometia no dir mai res, no fer mai res que els altres poguessin emmagatzemar al seu cap per retreure-m'ho el dia que els donés la gana. No volia quedar mai més enterrat, immobilitzat per un munt de paraules, convertit en un retrat que em feien els altres i que jo no podía esborrar.

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.

Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all.

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.