Human Words Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words… — Frederick Buechner
The real people nation have for centuries had the practice at birth of speaking the same first phrase to all newborns. Each person hears the… — Marlo Morgan
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is.… — Barbara Brown Taylor
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will… — Primo Levi
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning. — Malidoma Patrice Some
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell… — Ayn Rand
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which… — Jose Saramago
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The… — E. M. Forster
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing… — Robert A. Heinlein
Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.… — Anne Carson
The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Who Wrote These Human Words Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 12 Human Words Quotes as follows: