Language Quote by Sebastian Barry

“We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.”

— Sebastian Barry

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,”

— Ava Dellaira

“Her past was finally speaking to her in a language she understood.”

— Abby Slovin

“After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the…

— Virginia Woolf

“... for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“Language only has the lack of imagination as a barrier.”

— Anthony T. Hincks

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“He knew enough of their language to understand her words. But speaking”

— Mark Wayne McGinnis

“it is a journey to the language that can describe what is so hard to utter.”

— David Grossman

“And for her, now, replaced by the plain language of the dogs, who in a few syllables have everything to say.”

— Cleopatra Mathis

“she talked her whole life of seeing the world, but she never traveled further than the conversation.”

— Cari Kamm