Dies Quote by Anonymous

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

— Patricia Ryan

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of…

— Eduardo Galeano

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

— Nicole Brossard

A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new…

— H. L. Mencken

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

— Molly Haskell

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become…

— John McGahern

It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

— Helene Cixous

Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even…

— Stephen Corry

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

— Emile M. Cioran

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.

— Patricia Ryan