Corpses Quote by Asger Jorn

The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of…

— David Crystal

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

— Patricia Ryan

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

— Janet Frame

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

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

— Anonymous

You need language for thought, and you need language to anticipate death. There is no abstract thought without language and no anticipation. I think…

— David Cronenberg

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

— Helene Cixous

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can…

— Voltaire

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— George Steiner