Deceiving Quote by Marcel Proust

“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without the care…

— Pascal Mercier

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

— Andrew Lakey

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

— Adrienne Rich

“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

“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you are dreaming…

— Louise Erdrich

There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are…

— Pierre Klossowski

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

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

— Karl Marx

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

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language…

— Orson Scott Card

When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how…

— Maya Angelou