Break Quote by Eugene Ionesco

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

— Nate Lowman

“staggering out of Language, into language”

— China Miéville

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

— Anonymous

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Through the act of translation we break out of linguistic confinement and reach many other communities.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Language is powerful. Words matter.

— Eric Metaxas

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

— Karl Jaspers

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

— Rebecca Solnit

We must plow through the whole of language.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new…

— Willard Gaylin

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

— Michael J. Sullivan