Affirmation Quote by James Thurber

“When language arrives at its own edge, what it finds is not a positivity that contradicts it, but the void that will efface it.…

— Michel Foucault

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

— Jeanette Winterson

...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from…

— Jose Saramago

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because…

— Marcel Duchamp

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

— Anonymous

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and…

— Ted E. Brewerton

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

— Hippocrates

“Every writer dreams of a perfect language. Every writer dreams of a language that obeys, that comes to heel. For some this language is…

— Helen Marshall

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

— Tom Robbins

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky