Everything Quote by Simon Van Booy

Language can do what it can’t say.

— William Stafford

“Words fail.... As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is…

— Ramon C. Sunico

There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

— Noam Chomsky

We often show off our command of language best when we say nothing.

— Vikrant Parsai

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

— Leon Wieseltier

War is what happens when language fails.

— Margaret Atwood

“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you can say…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

— Antonin Artaud

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if…

— C. S. Lewis

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

— Samuel Beckett

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

— Karl Kraus

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