Death Quote by John Green

“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect...I digress, but here's the rub: The dead are…

— John Green

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words

— Haruki Murakami

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes,…

— Paul Celan

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

— Larry Brooks

When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.

— Patricia Ryan

Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.

— Joseph Brodsky

It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.

— Jeremy Page

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

— Jill Lepore

Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't think anything you've written is immortal as yet.

— Terence Young

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon