Quote by Robert M. Grant

“Translation can never do more than the approximate,so we shall, at least, be gloriously inaccurate.”

— Karen Healey

“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”

— Nataly Kelly

“Now if we rid our minds of the idea that our language is the translation or cipher of an original text, we shall see…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Virtually anything can be translated—“X cannot be translated” usually means nothing more exciting than “We have a word, X, that you need three or…

— Robert Lane Greene

“But there is no such thing as forever.”

— Tracy Rees

“There's no such thing as absolutes.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Nothing lasts forever, and nothing ever ends.”

— M. Pierce

“God knows our hearts. There is no need for an idle formula or an intermediary. No need for language either: God is beyond translation.”

— Hilary Mantel

“I can’t translate myself into language any more.”

— Alice Notley

“We cannot define. Nothing has ever been finally figured out, because there is nothing final to figure out”

— Charles Fort

“Each end is always a beginning, because nothing ever ends totally, nothing can ever end. Everything continues, only forms change.”

— Osho

“...how in the end it's impossible to understand the finality of certain things, certain words, certain moments.”

— Lauren Oliver