Grief Quote by Unica Zürn

“When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.”

— George Steiner

“All those languages, all that whispering, simply a vicarious way of preserving our identity for an uncertain length of time.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“The language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart, it was love.”

— Paulo Coelho

“I have to cry out here that language is all we have for the delicacy and truth of telling, that words are the sole…

— Janet Frame

“This is what language is: a habitual grief. A turn of speech for the everyday and ordinary abrasion of losses such as this: which…

— Eavan Boland

“Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon…

— Daniel S. Fletcher

“i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too…

— Colette

“Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without the care…

— Pascal Mercier

“When two lovers discover a language of their own.”

— Saleem Sharma

“Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.”

— T.F. Hodge

“A language brings with it a mass of perceptions, clichés, judgements and inspirations.”

— Nicholas Ostler

“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that…

— Dorothy Allison