513 quotes found
“He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.”
“If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.”
“Words are only words”
“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”
“If you believe what you say, words become reality.”
“His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.”
“Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't?”
“Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time ones never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.”
“She goes on to explain about how need to not only listen to what the other person is saying but try to hear the meaning behind their words. But my thing is that if you want someone to understand wh...”
“Around a child, people come and go, objects appear and are taken away, surroundings take shape and disintegrate. And no explanation is given, because how can you explain the world to a child?So she...”
“If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist.”
“Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us.”
“He had walked on the beach and wished for icy winds to sweep away everything that sounded like mere linguistic habit, a malicious kind of habit that prevented thinking by producing the illusion tha...”
“She wished such words unsaid with all her heart”
“Jacopo, while I could still read, during these past months, I read dictionaries, I studied histories of words, to understand what was happening in my body. I studied like a rabbi. Have you ever ref...”
“Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scrat...”
“Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.”
“Words are air currents. You can float or go where every you want if you master the currents”
“Words are just noises we make to describe stuff.”
“Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?”
