“The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“KINDNESS is a language which the dumb can speak and the deaf can understand.”— Anonymous, quoteinvestigator.com
“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sente…”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“It all adds up to one thing: peace, silence, solitude. The world and its noise are out of sight and far away. Forest and field, sun and wind and sky, earth and water, all speak the same language.”— Thomas Merton, amazon.com
“Let my lips serve as my pen and my love be the ink. Let me write on your body in a language for only us to know.”— J. L., wnq-writers.com
“It's no accident that the Irish invented stream-of-consciousness literature. It was of absolute necessity. Poverty and the deprivation of their own language made this very important. Hence long-term memory, which is a Celtic thing.”— John Lydon, latimesblogs.latimes.com
“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.”— Derrick Jensen, amazon.com
“In the world I am. Always a stranger. I do not understand its language. It does not understand my silence.”— Bei Dao, goodreads.com
“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“Mastery has a language to it. Speak that language and you will learn how to master anything you have some degree of talent in.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com