Eloquent Quote by Suzanne Vega

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

Silence is more eloquent than words.

— Thomas Carlyle

Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.

— Ramana Maharshi

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Silence is a language.

— Raghav Upmanyu

“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

“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of…

— Penelope Lively

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse…

— Eduardo Galeano

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

— Hanif Kureishi

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

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