Body Quote by Clarice Lispector

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

— Audre Lorde

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

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

— George Steiner

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

— Richard Jackson

“We are silent after hearing the Word because the Word is still speaking and dwelling within us. We are silent at the beginning of…

— Richard J. Foster

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to…

— Meister Eckhart

Silence is God's first language.

— John of the Cross

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.

— Sivananda

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

— Alan Moore

“Language is one of the principal ways that we make the invisible visible and the silent heard. Think”

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

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

— Helene Cixous