Monday, May 20, 2013

Quotes on Words.


“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

“words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.” 


“The menu is not the meal.” 

“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” 

“Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.” 

“Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.” 

“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.” 

“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.” 

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