2,489 Quotes About Language

All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don’t know everything. We aren’t final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law.

The language of love is the only language understood but not spoken the world over.

There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and she never would.

Может быть, просодия и грамматика - тот материал, из которого мы творим социум, способ организации смысла и времени, не принадлежащий никому по отдельности, но циркулирующий сквозь нас всех?

Появилась даже такая шутка: Украина — это страна, где люди говорят по-русски, а Россия — это страна, где люди молчат по-русски [141].

Die Rache der Sprache ist das Gedicht

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former

Sprache ist eine Waffe. Haltet sie scharf.