Quotes About Words

One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one's actions, and that includes one's words and silences, yes, one's silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one's silences.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a great writer and son of a bitch. Just an abject human being. It's incredible that the coldest moments of his abjection are covered under an aura of nobility, which is only attributable to the power of words.

My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order, in the order of painting and the order of words, since words are what we paint with. He believed in redemption. Deep down he may even have believed in progress. Coincidence, on the other hand, is total freedom, our natural destiny. Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are.

Ich las, aber die Worte zogen vorüber wie unbegreifliche Käfer.

Los veinte minutos iniciales tuvieron un tono trágico en donde la palabra destino se empleó diez veces y la palabra amistad veinticuatro.

Savage words: how one can destroy someone by simply sitting there in an armchair reading a book, not too far from him.

La mala palabra no nació así. La sociedad la hizo mala.

You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

One man armed with the right word may do what an army of swordsmen cannot.

Few things have such sharp edges as the careless words of a boy.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

A veces resulta más fácil desclavar un cuchillo de un hombre que pedirle que perdone tus palabras. Aunque esas palabras hayan nacido de la rabia.

As it was with dragons, so it is with queens. A careless word or deed could have severe consequences. Inside

A girl did not need to hit to hurt someone.

You poor, pathetic bastard," the charm ground out the slow accusing words. "You've become Igrot. Do you know that? To defeat the monster you became the monster." The tiny voice became even fainter. "You have only yourself to fear now.

Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back. Who

It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke," he said mildly. "A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

Better to regret unsaid words than repent of words I could never call back.

There had been a few occasions when words had so reached into him and settled their truth in him like roots in rich earth.

Words That Come Before All Else. This ancient order of protocol sets gratitude as the highest priority. The gratitude is directed straight to the ones who share their gifts with the world.

What will happen to a joke when no one can hear it anymore? How lonely those words will be, when their power is gone. Where will they go? Off to join the stories that can never be told again.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your heart.

Grievous words stir up anger.