Failing Quote by Noam Chomsky

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at…

— Simon Van Booy

A language is a map of our failures

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Patricia Ryan

“Words fail.... As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is…

— Ramon C. Sunico

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

— Bertrand Russell

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

— Samuel Beckett

Language does our thinking for us.

— Kenneth Burke

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

— Horace

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

— Slash

I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they…

— Anna Deavere Smith

War is what happens when language fails.

— Margaret Atwood