Words Quotes
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And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE.
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
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Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.
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Words for being lost or for being found.
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But I’ve always had a low voice, I can’t yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.
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I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
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We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing.
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I am known to be able to take care of myself when I become angry. I don't mince words.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.
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Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission
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Trauma radically changes people: that in fact they no longer are “themselves.” It is excruciatingly difficult to put that feeling of no longer being yourself into words.
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Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
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Friends have a way of speaking without words.
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Only she can say if, in fact, she has managed to insert herself into this extremely long chain of words to modify my text, to purposely supply the missing links, to unhook others without letting it show, to say of me more than I want, more than I’m able to say.
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The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
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The words that we attach to our experience become our experience.
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The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace
