Language Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“When words fail, then real language arrives, that rare guest.”

— Carolyn Chun

“Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

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

— George Steiner

“Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.”

— Uma Krishnaswami

“Words can get lost, become meaningless and fall away. And promises have a way of getting broken.”

— Kate Stewart

“I really hope there is a language barrier thing going on here.”

— Annie Ward

“What happens to what's happened?”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Sometimes a situation grows so tangled that words are useless.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“The atmosphere surrounding this problem is terrible. Dense clouds of language lie about the crucial point. It is almost impossible to get through to…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Some things defy language itself.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“There are moments when understanding arrives without words — and once it does, you know that life has already changed.”

— Angelika Regossi