Blood Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.”

— John Green

“This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in time.”

— Andrei Codrescu

“If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.”

— John Burnside

“Memory fills my body as much as blood and bones.”

— Colm Tóibín

“Sometimes a memory is a thing that can't be explained using words.”

— Cath Crowley

Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.

— Andrew Lakey

“why can we never talk about the blood. the blood of our ancestors. the blood of our history. the blood between our legs. – blood”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“Blood never forgets. It has a memory of an ancient path toward home.”

— Carolee Dean

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

— Anonymous

“Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.”

— Paulo Coelho