Words Quotes

I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

~ Anaïs Nin

An addition that takes time to depart, and sometimes, never leaves at all. A smell, a touch, thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! .... A pungent of cinnamon, an aroma of a rose, a summer breeze, a sweet smile like a per-fume that lingers on and on... endlessly.

~ Angie Karan

There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.

~ Christina Engela

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

~ China Miéville

And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the firemen and the ignorant, the ones afraid of tales and words and dreams and Hallowe'en and people who have tattooed themselves with stories and Boys! You Can Grow Mushrooms in Your Cellar! and as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.I learned your books. Burned them into my mind. In case the firemen come to town.

~ Neil Gaiman

This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.

~ Jazz Feylynn

The annihilating strokes slashed across my penned heartfelt words.

~ Jazz Feylynn

It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on foot by the thoughts we shelter. Our myriad intuitions are the veiled queens who steer our course through life, though we have no words in which to speak of them. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words!

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.

~ K.j. Kilton

As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know this. It’s what they try so hard to avoid.

~ Ethan Canin

Words are not cubicles for truth telling. Words do not allow us to touch the face of God or define the contours of the soul. Words are imprecise and cannot capture all aspects of reality or replicate all facets of a person’s emotional mélange. Language allows for limited explorations of reality and minimal probing of the human mind. I accept that the only possible relation between language and the world is the image displayed in each person’s head by the picture invoking ability of language. Select word pictures might accurately portray what I perceive and still be vague, blatantly inaccurate, completely meaningless, misleading, distorted, or incomprehensible in other persons’ minds.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I keep thinking about the fragmented quality of human awareness: You take your blindness for granted most of the time then suddenly it stuns you: how little you see as you plunge ahead from minute to minute, day to day, year to year - vision cut down to the arc of a flickering flashlight, never sure how your words and acts are affecting someone else because you never really see that someone as he is. I know we should find even the most serene life unendurable were we to possess to any real degree those extrasensory perceptions which our grandmothers believed in...

~ Lillian E. Smith

Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.

~ Kim Kiyosaki

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

~ Lidia Yuknavitch

Explanation is a well-dressed error.

~ Julio Cortázar

I guess that's the thing about betrayal, it holds no prejudice and preys on those who neither see it coming nor deserve it.

~ Anna Todd

We are bees then, our honey is language.

~ Robert Bly

I grow more and more intrigued by this as I write: how words, even the most carefully chosen, can mean such different things from one person to another, so that others might think about what I write in ways I did not intend at all.

~ Dawn Hammill

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.

~ Elena Ferrante

The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.

~ Elena Ferrante

The most important questions are the ones we can't hope to answer with words. Words are like toys : they amuse and educate us for a time, but when we come to manhood, we should give them up.'Sunmer shakes his head.' The words are all we have,' he says.' If we give them up, we are no better than the beasts.'Otto smiles at Sunmer's wrong headedness.' Then you must find out the explanations on your own, if that is what you truly think.

~ Ian Mcguire

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

~ Toni Cade Bambara

I've never subscribed to the words can never hurt me point of view. Because if words can't hurt, then neither can they help or heal or inspire. Yes, words can brutalize. They can shame and scar. But people must be free to say them anyway. We protect free speech not because words are harmless, but because they are powerful.

~ Brian Holguin

Words that are spoken are not TRUE,Feelings alone speak the TRUTH.

~ Sarvesh Murthi .D .D

Never let anything be a set back in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.

~ Gugu Mona

Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

It takes just a step to show the other side of you that you never wanted to show. It takes just a word to start the words you never wanted to say. It all begins with something and it all starts somewhere. Mind the starting point and note the beginning.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The man who writes has an oppressive and unhappy fate. This is because the nature of his work obliges him to use words; that is, to convert his inner surge into immobility. Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover the meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons. (Report to Greco)

~ N. Kazantzakis

Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn’t have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Though words are arbitrary in their primitive institution, yet when once their signification is fixed, we are no more entitled to alter it than to call a tree an elephant; for, being no man's private possession, but the common measures of commerce and communication, it is not for any one at pleasure to change the stamp they are current in; at least where there is a necessity to do so, notice of it should be given.

~ Richard Kirwan

You see, I’m a juggler with words myself.

~ Anonymous

Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.

~ Elizabeth Kolbert

The world is alive with words

~ Amy Harmon

Words are just words who they come from gives them relevance and this relevance gives them the power to hurt you. Make those who hurt you irrelevant.

~ Wordions

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

~ Anonymous.

He'd been given every word he needed, and every word had been stripped from me. I wanted them back. All of them.

~ Amy Harmon

I am a lover of words.If your words don't play with me,nothing else in you will.

~ Wordions

To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged. This isn’t because what Jesus or Moses said was untrue or because modern society is in error but simply because the route they chose to reveal to others has lost relevance and comprehensibility. Heaven above fades from meaning when space-age consciousness asks, Where is above? But the fact that the old routes have tended, because of language rigidity, to lose their everyday meaning and become almost closed doesn’t mean that the mountain is no longer there. It’s there and will be there as long as consciousness exists.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.

~ N'zuri Za Austin