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title: "19 World Language Quotes by 17 authors"
description: "Browse 19 World Language quotes by 17 authors. Discover the best World Language sayings and thoughts."
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> [I was always fascinated by diagramming a sentence. Because that is going into a space, going into a world of language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vito-acconci/i-was-always-fascinated-by-diagramming-a-sentence-because-that-is/)

[Vito Acconci](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vito-acconci/)

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> [Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/our-world-isn-t-made-of-earth-air-and-water-or-even-molecules-and/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-wonder/music-is-a-world-within-itself-with-a-language-we-all-understand/)

[Stevie Wonder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-wonder/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff2/stevie-wonder-2107_language_music-is-a-world-within-itself-with-a-la_1856897.jpg)

> [All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liza-donnelly/all-cartoonists-are-linked-together-in-the-world-it-s-our-language/)

[Liza Donnelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liza-donnelly/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ca/liza-donnelly-57935_cartoonists_all-cartoonists-are-linked-together-in-t_378421.jpg)

> [It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-pagel/it-might-be-inevitable-that-we-have-to-confront-the-idea-that-our/)

[Mark Pagel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-pagel/)

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> [“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/colum-mccann/there-is-nothing-more-substantial-to-place-against-the-cruelty-of-the/)

[Colum McCann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/colum-mccann/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf2/colum-mccann-902_cruelty_there-is-nothing-more-substantial-to-pla_730723.png)

> [The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/the-price-a-world-language-must-be-prepared-to-pay-is-submission-to-2/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/637/chinua-achebe-781_be-prepared_the-price-a-world-language-must-be-prepa_1892628.png)

> [It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wendell-berry/it-is-impossible-to-prefigure-the-salvation-of-the-world-in-the-same/)

[Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wendell-berry/)

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> [“Language has infinite power and as long as there’s Romeo and Juliet or Laila and Majnu or You and Me, as long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mallika-nawal/language-has-infinite-power-and-as-long-as-there-s-romeo-and-juliet/)

[Mallika Nawal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mallika-nawal/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ed7/mallika-nawal-31865_infinite_language-has-infinite-power-and-as-long_609757.jpg)

> [For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-kafka/for-everything-outside-the-phenomenal-world-language-can-only-be-used/)

[Franz Kafka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-kafka/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b0/franz-kafka-214_concerned_for-everything-outside-the-phenomenal-wo_3142062.jpg)

> [My mother introduced to me as a child the world of language: the way in which translation can be a system by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/my-mother-introduced-to-me-as-a-child-the-world-of-language-the-way/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-wales/the-goal-is-to-give-people-a-free-encyclopedia-to-every-person-in-the/)

[Jimmy Wales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-wales/)

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> [“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-koontz/words-are-the-wellspring-of-the-world-and-language-is-the-most/)

[Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-koontz/)

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> [The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-world-is-made-up-of-language-we-can-say-that-the-world-is/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6b/terence-mckenna-287_calisthenics_the-world-is-made-up-of-language-we-can_823924.jpg)

> [“Magic is the first language of the world. It was the language before words, before mathematics. Humanity can accept concepts like space…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosella-testa/magic-is-the-first-language-of-the-world-it-was-the-language-before/)

[Rosella Testa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosella-testa/)

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> [The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-world-is-mental-in-some-way-that-we-do-not-yet-understand-but/)

[Terence McKenna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence-mckenna/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe8/terence-mckenna-287_assumption_the-world-is-mental-in-some-way-that-we_1120946.jpg)

> [“In fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-gottlieb/in-fact-it-could-be-said-that-our-language-evolved-for-the-express/)

[Larry Gottlieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-gottlieb/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/358/larry-gottlieb-64859_beliefs_in-fact-it-could-be-said-that-our-langua_356946.jpg)

> [“Language, then, not simply as a list of separate things to be added up and whose sum total is equal to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-auster/language-then-not-simply-as-a-list-of-separate-things-to-be-added-up/)

[Paul Auster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-auster/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c3/paul-auster-351_language_language-then-not-simply-as-a-list-of-se_505082.jpg)

> [The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chinua-achebe/the-price-a-world-language-must-be-prepared-to-pay-is-submission-to/)

[Chinua Achebe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chinua-achebe/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7c/chinua-achebe-781_able_the-price-a-world-language-must-be-prepa_604431.jpg)

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