Books Quote by Italo Calvino

“In the simplest language, spoken without a single word between out two bodies.”

— Cara McKenna

“Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.”

— Oscar Wilde

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

— Antonio Machado

“The life these words speak of is not worth the ink they are written in… He now knows that the only words worth writing…

— Andreï Makine

“No words in any language can pin down exactly how life and death function.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

“Who will consider that no dictionary of a living tongue ever can be perfect, since, while it is hastening to publication, some words are…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Erin Moure

“Death is only a translation of life into another language.”

— Francis Marion Crawford

“The existence of language is, in a way, a continual denigration of words.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

— Melina Marchetta