"Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes."
- Theodore Dreiser
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
- Jalaluddin Rumi
"If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint."
- Edward Hopper
"Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all."
- Patricia A. McKillip
"People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too."
- William Faulkner
"In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child."
- Jodi Picoult
"The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name and dates, carved by machine. Just the inadequate and impersonal. Loving Father and Husband, like e..."
- Stuart Nadler
"For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody."
- Aldous Huxley