Dies Quote by Robert Graves

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

— Wade Davis

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

— Wade Davis

Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.

— Sven Birkerts

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet…

— Mary Ellen Chase

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day…

— Gershom Scholem

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

— Patricia Ryan

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

“Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

— Mason Cooley

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of…

— Eduardo Galeano

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through…

— Tom Felton

Indeed, which will be scattered and broken yet moment we language will be its hostile

— Mak_786