Language Fails Quotes
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. — A. S. Byatt
- Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into… — Robert Green Ingersoll
- The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if… — Rob Bell
- Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. — Slash
- Love will heal What language fails to know — Eavan Boland
- I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have… — Anna Deavere Smith
- Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent. — Cornel West
- When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel
- There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all. — Simon Van Booy