words Quotes

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart.... Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“It is not sufficient to use the same words in order to understand one another: we must also employ the same words for the same kind of internal experiences, we must in the end have experiences IN COMMON.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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“The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:words writing

“Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:words meaning

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God’s name would you want to make things worse by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you...”

― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

topic:words writing meaning

“The heart hath treble wrong When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.”

― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

topic:heart words

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“I loved him very much—more than I could trust myself to say—more than words had power to express.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Was there anything so real as words?”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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