Curious Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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

— Patricia Ryan

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in…

— Arthur Helps

A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist…

— Toni Morrison

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

— John W. Campbell

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they…

— Anna Deavere Smith

If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind…

— Asger Jorn

“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially speaking.”

— Sol Luckman