3,439 Quotes About Words

Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.

An addition that takes time to depart, and sometimes, never leaves at all. A smell, a touch, thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! .... A pungent of cinnamon, an aroma of a rose, a summer breeze, a sweet smile like a per-fume that lingers on and on... endlessly.

It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on foot by the thoughts we shelter. Our myriad intuitions are the veiled queens who steer our course through life, though we have no words in which to speak of them. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words!

Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "green"?

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Some thoughts you underestimate but may be capable of energizing the world. Never delay to put your thoughts into words.

Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn’t have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!