Quotes About Words

It may be true that death is a big empty hole and that sorrow is to know just how empty that hole is, but it's only true if you are sober. If you have liquor, then you can fill the hole up with all the beautiful thoughts you can think of and all the nice words you can find. You can fill it up all the way to the brim and place a stone on it afterward.

Our so-called leaders speak With words they try to jail you The subjugate the meek But it's the rhetoric of failure

In the hieroglyphic script, the power of the words were matched by the power of the symbols themselves. The symbols were regarded as being so powerful, precautions had to be taken to prevent them from taking on a life of their own.

Perhaps what he'd been seeking was simply his own self, and he'd been guilty of imposing omens on words and places.

Whatever moments of unity they might have shared when they came out of the water had gone now. Secrets had changed them, unspoken words.

My sore words are inspired by desperate need.

If you any respect for me, you'll stand by me now, not drive me away." "Respect you?" Taziel laughed bitterly. "Daniel, I love you." "Don't say that!" Daniel turned away, leaned on the windowsill. "You hardly know me. Don't bind me with words!" "You are human," Taziel said coldly. "Only that. Why the hell should I tell a mere human I love it, unless I mean what I say?

As I spoke, I wondered myself why I was taking this deception so far, why I was hurting this lovely, gentle soul whom Metatron trusted above all others. I was poisoning their relationship with my words. Why was I doing this? Was it simply to protect Beth and Avirzah'e? I could no longer be certain of my motives.

These lips had spoken words into the primal chaos of the world; they had sculpted sound into matter, darkness into light.

The crone's words hung on the air as if she'd scrawled them in light.

In winter the Brine freezes over entirely and is said that the ice traps all the words that were being spoken as the water froze. In spring, when the ice melts, the air is full of the ghosts of conversation.

Gastern could see now that the sacred building was composed entirely of petrified gargoyles. Their grimacing faces peered out from every eave and spire. If the right words were spoken, perhaps they could come to life and fly in all directions. People would wake in the morning and there would only be an immense crater where the cathedral once stood.

As is modern magical practice, the Egyptian priests believed in the inherent power of words and images, which when utilised correctly possessed their own creative force.

Meggie had the distinct impression that Tamara was playing with words, almost as if she was initating this argument purely for the sake of it.

A dull ache in her breast was the invading presence of her love for Valraven. She could not speak these words without thinking of him. He was the sea inside her.

The funny thing about saying something in anger is that once it has been said, it cannot be unsaid. The second it's floating in the ether, it's there forever. Hanging there, like a sword.

But I'll tell you more about that later... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed.

Your heart knows your song, but you have to be willing to listen to the words.

On reflecting at dinner that he had done nothing to help anybody all day, he uttered these memorable and praiseworthy words: "Friends, I have lost a day.

An informer's word was always believed. Every crime became a capital one, even the utterance of a few careless words.

I believed in words, even if they only masked the uncertainty of time passing.

I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand if you can and for you to feel, regardless.

Niceness is not fairness. Peace (or the absence of open conflict) is not justice. Comfort is not guaranteed. Until we dismantle this system, we will insist, in words and actions: Change is necessary.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.