All-gall-is-divided Quote by Emil M. Cioran

“Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another…

— Håkan Nesser

“There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of immediacy, a…

— Susan Hill

“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as ever they…

— Frederick Buechner

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“ANIMALS... in a world far older than ours, finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, live…

— 1928 Henry Beston

“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline that lucidity…

— María Dueñas

“Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unclaimed.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“I thought it such a shame that our culture had not devised a way to defang old age. A sophisticated civilization wouldn't ridicule senility,…

— Timothy Schaffert

“even the slightest stir in the broad grammar of existence—a moment asking only to be noticed—was enough to rekindle that astonished brightness, the kind…

— Neena H. Brar