Brink Quote by Wade Davis

“so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world”

— Lucille Clifton

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day…

— Gershom Scholem

Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of…

— Eduardo Galeano

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

— Neil Gaiman

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

— Mark Pagel

There's nothing unusual about a single language dying. But what's going on today is extraordinary when we compare the situation to what has happened…

— David Crystal

If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.

— Michael J. Sullivan

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

— Storm Jameson

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

— Terence McKenna

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

— Anonymous

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

— Jack Gilbert

“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys and sorrows…

— Kató Lomb