Impossible Quote by Patricia A. McKillip

They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.

— Yasunari Kawabata

He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to…

— Kent Haruf

And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it,…

— Haruki Murakami

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“...-not only did he deplore the waste of words, he detested the moral lassitude with which they were wasted. To him, in whose throat…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

— Marcel Proust

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

— Sarah Dessen

“Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“He knew how useless words could be. How even when you wanted more than anything just to hear someone say they understood, it didn’t…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“Because sometimes words were so pitifully inadequate, and I knew that, but I had to try anyway.”

— Jenny Han

“We don’t want any—” he began, and ought to have chosen his words better, because they were his epitaph. It”

— Terry Pratchett

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they…

— Janet Fitch