#words

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#breaks #heart #like #silence #sting

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fail #handy #ideas #very #words

For me, words are just words, nothing else. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#just #me #nothing #words

We knew the difference between that which cannot be expressed and that which must. We understood that while words are a path taking us only so far, they are a requisite to the journey. They are like road maps that show us which way to go. ↗

— Laura Bynum

#censorship #words #censorship

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into the Promised Land Of oblivion that is waiting for us sooner or later. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#desire #ink #light-speed #literature #literature-quotes

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#i write #narrative #short #thread #tight

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#closeness #cure #distance #heals #know

Character and fate are two words for the same thing. ↗

— Novalis

#fate #same #thing #two #words

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#any #color #could #found #had

Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#far #goes #gone #i #image