When Words Lose Their Meaning Quotes

#1. Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#2. When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.

Akshay Vasu

#3. The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

Haruki Murakami

#4. Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Confucius

#5. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton

W. H. Auden

#6. Words lose their meaning when you look at them too long. 'God.' 'Science.' Meaning.

Mark Frost

#7. The problem with words is that they easily lose their meaning. Say something often enough and it becomes a tic, not an expression of how you actually feel. Not only that, but words rarely change things. Actions do.

Seth Godin

#8. I think I'm heading into a time in my life where words and labels will lose their meaning. It will only be the intent behind them that will matter.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#9. The words were old and true, full of reassurance, comfort, consolation. Men followed such words to their death because other men before them had done the same, and perhaps it was easier to die than admit that words could lose their meaning.

Don DeLillo

#10. A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

W. H. Auden

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

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#12. When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty.

Confucius

#13. When words lose their meaning and their capacity to bind those who use them, neither democracy nor the rule of law can long survive.

Austin Sarat

#14. Pretty words," Brooke said, dropping her arms so they laid limply at her sides. "But even the prettiest song can lose its intended meaning if it is repeated constantly.

Heather C. Myers