Anxiety Quote by W. S. Gilbert

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

— Robert Kelly

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally…

— George Orwell

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because…

— Marcel Duchamp

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English

— Sophie Marceau

I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

— Gerard Way

Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they…

— Madison Smartt Bell

If we are not most careful with our thoughts and speech, the words we use will use us. Language has its own ethics, and…

— Ted E. Brewerton

My language is a feel-thinking language, feeling and thinking at once, that is why it is a celebration of life, and at once it…

— Eduardo Galeano

The unconscious is structured like a language.

— Jacques Lacan

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on…

— Arca

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.

— Howard Hodgkin

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

— Socrates