Abstract Quote by David Cronenberg

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

— Janet Frame

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

— Helene Cixous

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

— Bertrand Russell

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day…

— Clarice Lispector

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

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several individuals, the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Patricia Ryan

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant.”

— Erin Moure