Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and…

— Dan Simmons

“when the words we speak or write come from inner experience and are heartfelt, they are always imbued with “trembling for the welfare of…

— Ayya Khema

“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don't you feel that our brief hurried letters lack feeling and spirit, contain no whispers or dreams of love , that our responses are…

— Samih al-Qasim

“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and…

— Dan Simmons

“We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But what I heard was a low insistent murmur, with pauses for reply in which no reply was made. It had a hypnotic quality…

— L.P. Hartley

“There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying…

— George Eliot

“I gazed at these marvels in profound silence. Words were utterly wanting to indicate the sensations of wonder I experienced. I seemed, as I…

— Jules Verne

“Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the…

— Wilkie Collins

“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.”

— Roberto Bolaño