Betray Quote by Pierre Klossowski

“There are many more languages than one imagines. And man reveals himself much more often than he wishes. So many things that speak! But…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Andrew Lakey

“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

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

— George Steiner

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.

— Sivananda

Silence is the only language god speaks.

— Charles Simic

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

— Charlton Laird

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

— Richard Jackson

“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

Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In appearance, however,…

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

— Andrew Solomon