Quote by Paul Auster

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in…

— Northrop Frye

But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the…

— Thomas Hobbes

What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave…

— Elie Wiesel

“The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in…

— George Steiner

How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or…

— Peter Kreeft

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

— Mark Pagel

“With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and every reader…

— Andrei Codrescu

“To abandon language is to stop/creating a place other than your own life/in which to live. It is to enter/the terrible certainty of the…

— Jude Nutter

“They invent a howling theatrical language through which it becomes possible to express the grief of the whole world, a language understood by no…

— Unica Zürn

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

— Wendell Berry

“Our modern era embodies both the Tower of Babel and Pentecost simultaneously. Like Babel, globalization and technological advancement have created linguistic and cultural fragmentation……

— Paule Patterson