Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
~ Michael Ondaatje
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
~ Arundhati Roy
I like good strong words that mean something…
~ Louisa May Alcott
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
~ Anne Bradstreet
I believe in the magic and authority of words.
~ René Char
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
~ Richard Wright
Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.
~ Natsuki Takaya
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Give sorrow words, the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
~ William Shakespeare
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
~ Maya Angelou
How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.
~ David Foster Wallace
The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.
~ Markus Zusak
Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.
~ Colleen Hoover
Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.
~ William Faulkner
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
~ Haruki Murakami
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
~ James Joyce
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
~ Adrienne Rich
Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
~ C.s. Lewis
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
~ Virginia Woolf
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.
~ George Gordon Byron
Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.
~ Mark Slouka
You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.
~ Sarah Kay
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
~ Pythagoras
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
~ Orson Scott Card
In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
~ Roland Barthes
But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
Words are loneliness.
~ Henry Miller
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
~ Jack Gilbert
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
~ Oscar Wilde
I am not imposed upon by fine words, I can see what actions mean.
~ George Eliot
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
~ Patricia A. Mckillip
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.
~ Confucius
Words are wind.
~ George R.r. Martin
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
~ Frank Herbert
