Language Quote by Spencer Gordon

“Sometimes I worry, for myself, that I’ve stopped being amazed at certain things, or I’ve taken for granted a set of ideas about how…

— Ben Marcus

“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.”

— David Kyuman Kim

“So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade”

— Rae Armantrout

“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to…

— Thomas Pynchon

“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and…

— Dan Simmons

“Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles…

— Roland Barthes

“What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into…

— Daphne Rose Kingma

“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.”

— Lauren Slater

“I felt melancholy, I felt joy, I felt dread, I felt a sadness so deep it cannot be described in words. I felt emotions…

— Charles Yu

“We thought we were special, opening our perceptions, honing our empathy, spilling that cauldron of shared pain onto the dance floor of language and…

— Dan Simmons