Fear Quote by Hanya Yanagihara

“The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his…

— James Joyce

“He had been taught that language was essentially inadequate, that it could never speak what was there, that it only spoke itself. He thought…

— A.S. Byatt

“and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar…

— George Orwell

“The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.”

— Alexander Theroux

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring…

— Edward R. Murrow

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit…

— Henry Adams

“The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing…

— Chris Nicolaisen

Speech happens to not be his language.

— Madame de Stael

“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require…

— R. Scott Bakker

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so…

— Marcel Proust

“He has been travelling blindly, whether forward he cannot say, without learning anything except that he has not yet learned anything, unless he counts…

— Margaret Atwood