125-Word Inspirational Quotes

In a world teeming with challenges and uncertainties, a few well-chosen words can ignite inspiration and motivation like nothing else. Here, we've meticulously gathered a collection of 125-word inspirational quotes that pack a powerful punch in a compact format. These quotes are perfect for when you need a quick burst of encouragement or a gentle reminder of the boundless potential that lies within you. Whether you’re seeking guidance to overcome obstacles, a spark to fuel your dreams, or simply a moment of reflection, these succinct yet profound quotes will provide the uplift you need. Dive in and discover the wisdom that has the potential to transform your outlook in just a few words.

1. “All words are pegs to hang ideas on.” - Henry Ward Beecher

2. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” - William Shakespeare

3. “What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.” - E. M. Forster

4. “Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.” - Patrick Rothfuss

5. “Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.” - Roland Barthes

6. “Translation is at best an echo.” - George Borrow

7. “Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.” - Anne Michaels

8. “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.” - Norman Maclean

9. “I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.” - Madeleine L'Engle

10. “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” - Christopher Morley

11. “If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.” - Enid Bagnold

12. “Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.” - Virginia Woolf

13. “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” - René Descartes

14. “I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.” - H. P. Lovecraft

15. “Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object by mere addition of consequences. Others pick up words from the streets, from their bars, from their offices and display them proudly in their poems as if they were shouting, "See what I have collected from the American language. Look at my butterflies, my stamps, my old shoes!" What does one do with all this crap?” - Jack Spicer

16. “Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.” - Alberto Manguel

17. “I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.” - George Eliot

18. “I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.” - Ian Fleming

19. “Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.” - Patricia A. McKillip

20. “There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?” - Marina Tsvetaeva

21. “How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.” - Philip Levine

22. “A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.” - Herman Melville

23. “Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.” - W. Somerset Maugham

24. “Where do the words gowhen we have said them?” - Margaret Atwood

25. “Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain — the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed — then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.” - Vladimir Nabokov

26. “Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")” - Algernon Blackwood

27. “To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.” - Pablo Tusset

28. “To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.” - Augusto Roa Bastos

29. “Let's have some new cliches.” - Samuel Goldwyn

30. “What a glut of books! Who can read them?” - Robert Burton

31. “The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. ” - Markus Zusak

32. “By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathetic magic if one is not to be overwhelmed. ... What is essential is to become one with the sickness, that is, in the context of language as a whole, to enter into contact with words.” - Michael Richardson

33. “A picture can tell a thousand words,but a few words can change it’s story.” - Sebastyne Young

34. “I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland” - Arthur Conan Doyle

35. “There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it.” - Elias Canetti

36. “Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.” - yi

37. “words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.” - Jodi Picoult

38. “When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.” - Virginia Woolf

39. “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” - Andrew Solomon

40. “At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.” - Isabel Allende

41. “There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.” - Andrea Levy

42. “The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this is agreed between us, then I feel at liberty to put forward a few ideas and suggestions because you will not allow them to fetter that independence which is the most important quality that a reader can possess. After all, what laws can be laid down about books? The battle of Waterloo was certainly fought on a certain day; but is Hamlet a better play than Lear? Nobody can say. Each must decide that question for himself. To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions-there we have none.” - Virginia Woolf

43. “Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song. Out of the dead compost and the inert slag they breed a song that contaminates. I see this other race of individuals ransacking the universe, turning everything upside down, their feet always moving in blood and tears, their hands always empty, always clutching and grasping for the beyond, for the god out of reach: slaying everything within reach in order to quiet the monster that gnaws at their vitals. I see that when they tear their hair with the effort to comprehend, to seize this forever unattainable, I see that when they bellow like crazed beasts and rip and gore, I see that this is right, that there is no other path to pursue. A man who belongs to this race must stand up on the high place with gibberish in his mouth and rip out his entrails. It is right and just, because he must! And anything that falls short of this frightening spectacle, anything less shuddering, less terrifying, less mad, less intoxicated, less contaminating, is not art. The rest is counterfeit. The rest is human. The rest belongs to life and lifelessness.” - Henry Miller

44. “Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.” - Oscar Wilde

45. “A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.” - Jennifer Donnelly

46. “There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

47. “All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.” - Jimi Hendrix

48. “I do not say words, which you want to hear.The words just told me, to write them down.” - Toba Beta

49. “How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important?But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's newspaper.It was all about words.If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.” - Linda Sue Park

50. “Because when I read, I don't really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur until the thought dissolves in me like alcohol, infusing brain and heart and coursing on through the veins to the root of each blood vessel.” - Bohumil Hrabal

51. “Man will find his own structured words,which will transfigure his into immortal.” - Toba Beta

52. “Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.” - Helen Keller

53. “Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person ("only what is helpful for building others up")2) Consider the problem ("according to their needs")3) Consider the process ("that it may benefit those who listen")” - Timothy S. Lane

54. “Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.” - Carolee Dean

55. “What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.” - Elizabeth von Arnim

56. “To utter a word? no that will only heavy the air you breath, for your eyes speak more then your pretty mouth” - william

57. “But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.” - Haruki Murakami

58. “A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.” - Criss Jami

59. “We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, there are only a tiny number about whose meaning, sense, and denotation we would have absolutely no doubts, if one day, we were to ask ourselves seriously what they meant. Thus we affirm and deny, thus we convince and are convinced, thus we argue, deduce, and conclude, wandering fearlessly over the surface of concepts about which we only have the vaguest of ideas, and, despite the false air of confidence that we generally affect as we feel our way along the road in verbal darkness, we manage, more or less, to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.” - José Saramago

60. “What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.” - T.F. Hodge

61. “What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--or they cling to her--as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she can't get out and we can't get in to free her.” - Patricia A. McKillip

62. “In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities.” - Helen Keller

63. “Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.” - Criss Jami

64. “Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.” - H.G. Wells

65. “Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.” - John Fowles

66. “With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.” - Robin Kimmerer

67. “Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely, that it is a collection of short stories.” - James Webb Young

68. “When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming.” - Jeanette Winterson

69. “It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.” - Terry Pratchett

70. “All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano's mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the quivering air, like gelatine, the sounds trace their bubble paths. Can you imagine that?” - j.m.g. le clezio

71. “No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.” - Gregory Maguire

72. “[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the millions of words that have ever existed, anywhere, in any age. In contrast with the spoken word and its classifying function, the purpose of writing seems, rather, to be a quest for the egg, the seed, nothing more.” - j.m.g. le clezio

73. “Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.” - Siri Hustvedt

74. “And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!” - David Almond

75. “Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.” - Frank Herbert

76. “Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change... Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewhere?” - Nick Harkaway

77. “It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'""That's great," Lana said."Invincible. I can't be vinced.""That's not even a word," Lana said."Go ahead: try to vince me," Sanjit said.” - Michael Grant

78. “For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.” - Markus Zusak

79. “Everybody listens to me with a focus on my words. This is a mistake. The words are the vehicle to deliver an idea. Always listen to the idea, it's more valid then any words that I can use.” - Richard Diaz

80. “So …” Jack clears his throat. “We …”Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don’t have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.” - Elizabeth Eulberg

81. “Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.Words you can’t have back, so they linger.” - Coco J. Ginger

82. “I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.” - Carol Ann Duffy

83. “Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.” - David Foenkinos

84. “Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say this meaning too:Give it the shadow.Give it shadow enough,Give it as muchAs you know is spread round you fromMidnight to midday and midnight.Look around:See how things all come alive-By death! Alive!Speaks true who speaks shadow.But now the place shrinks, where you stand:Where now, shadow-stripped, where?Climb. Grope upwards.Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer!Finer: a threadThe star wants to descend on:So as to swim down beliow, down hereWhere it sees itself shimmer:in the swellOf wandering words.” - Paul Celan

85. “And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.” - Norton Juster

86. “Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.” - Nema Al-Araby

87. “How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions” - Miguel Syjuco

88. “...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...” - John Geddes

89. “...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...” - John Geddes

90. “... but I love language. It is a living, breathing, evolving thing, and language has power. Whether in a song lyric, a poem, a speech, or a simple conversation, we’ve all experienced words that resonate with us. They may make us recall a powerful moment, inspire us, move us, or perhaps, comfort us…. But at the same time, we don’t think in words. We think in pictures. If I say the word ‘dog’ to you, you aren’t picturing the letters, d-o-g, you’re picturing a dog from your memory...” - Lily Velden

91. “Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.” - Shannon L. Alder

92. “And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates.” - Simon Winchester

93. “The words we choose to use when we communicate with each other, carry vibrations. The word ‘war’ carries a whole different vibration than the word ‘peace’. The words we use are showing how we think and how we feel. The careful selection of words, helps to elevate our consciousness and resonate in higher frequencies.” - Grigoris Deoudis

94. “One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.” - Alasdair Gray

95. “Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.” - Helen Oyeyemi

96. “I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.” - Gregory Maguire

97. “Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to remember that."I know what she means. Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.” - Ally Condie

98. “You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.” - Sarah Kay

99. “Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.” - Glenda Millard

100. “For a woman's words to wound would require a man to listen first!” - Meredith Duran

101. “Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.” - Dejan Stojanovic

102. “Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?” - Dejan Stojanovic

103. “My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.” - Dejan Stojanovic

104. “You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morning You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapersThere are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines("Zone")” - Guillaume Apollinaire

105. “Translation is the art of failure.” - Umberto Eco

106. “They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.” - Michael Grant Fear

107. “If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.” - Nyrae Dawn

108. “...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...” - John Geddes

109. “There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.” - Kelly Barnhill

110. “You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.” - Nema Al-Araby

111. “My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.” - Margaret Edson

112. “Words do murder.” - Anthony Liccione

113. “WordsBe careful of words,even the miraculous ones.For the miraculous we do our best,sometimes they swarm like insectsand leave not a sting but a kiss.They can be as good as fingers.They can be as trusty as the rockyou stick your bottom on.But they can be both daisies and bruises.Yet I am in love with words.They are doves falling out of the ceiling.They are six holy oranges sitting in my lap.They are the trees, the legs of summer,and the sun, its passionate face.Yet often they fail me.I have so much I want to say,so many stories, images, proverbs, etc.But the words aren't good enough,the wrong ones kiss me.Sometimes I fly like an eaglebut with the wings of a wren.But I try to take careand be gentle to them.Words and eggs must be handled with care.Once broken they are impossiblethings to repair.” - Anne Sexton

114. “Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like stones of fire, like points of stars in the dark—readings when the knowledge that we shall know the writing differently or better or satisfactorily, runs ahead of any capacity to say what we know, or how. In these readings, a sense that the text has appeared to be wholly new, never before seen, is followed, almost immediately, by the sense that it was always there, that we the readers, knew it was always there, and have always known it was as it was, though we have now for the first time recognised, become fully cognisant of, our knowledge.” - A.S. Byatt

115. “Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice.” - Louis B. Saloman

116. “I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.” - Janet Frame

117. “Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.” - Don Roff

118. “Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts—so what?” - Richelle E. Goodrich

119. “It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.” - Kim Stanley Robinson

120. “However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life hurt.That the words were just words on a page, but in real life, the pain was immense. Trials and tribulations to prove your love were exactly that, trials and tribulations.” - Kristen Ashley

121. “I don’t know: perhaps it’s a dream, all a dream. (That would surprise me.) I’ll wake, in the silence, and never sleep again. (It will be I?) Or dream (dream again), dream of a silence, a dream silence, full of murmurs (I don’t know, that’s all words), never wake (all words, there’s nothing else).You must go on, that’s all I know.They’re going to stop, I know that well: I can feel it. They’re going to abandon me. It will be the silence, for a moment (a good few moments). Or it will be mine? The lasting one, that didn’t last, that still lasts? It will be I?You must go on.I can’t go on.You must go on.I’ll go on. You must say words, as long as there are any - until they find me, until they say me. (Strange pain, strange sin!) You must go on. Perhaps it’s done already. Perhaps they have said me already. Perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story. (That would surprise me, if it opens.)It will be I? It will be the silence, where I am? I don’t know, I’ll never know: in the silence you don’t know.You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.” - Samuel Beckett

122. “We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown beyond whatever we have words for. In all talking there lies a grain of contempt. Speech, it seems, was devised only for the average medium, communicable. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

123. “With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.” - Denis Johnson

124. “There is a weird power in a spoken word.” - Joseph Conrad

125. “Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others' words and actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by you to any life in any form, animal or human, is as harmful as it would e if caused to your own self.” - Lord Mahāvīra