2,489 Quotes About Language

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

the given language is power because it compels me to use already formulated stereotypes, including words themselves, and that it is structured so fatally that, slaves inside it, we cannot free ourselves outside it, because outside the given language there is nothing. How can we escape what Barthes calls, Sartre-like, this huis clos? By cheating. You can cheat the given language. This dishonest and healthy and liberating trick is called literature.

Nekada su za to koristili metke, danas pucaju riječima.A istorija, učiteljica života, pokazala je već toliko puta da riječi mogu biti opasnije od metaka.

There are no handles upon a language Whereby men take hold of it And mark it with signs for its remembrance.

Rather than living only in the present, the use of verbal symbols allowed the Homo sapiens to mysteriously transcend the immediate experience given by the physical senses and to live in an abstract, extra-sensory, and hypothetical world.

You cannot say something about something without revealing something about yourself.

Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.