language isn't enough
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
philosopher Ludwig Witt
philosopher Ludwig Witt
estou consciente de que tudo o que sei não posso dizer, só sei pintando ou pronunciando sílabas cegas de sentido
clarice lispector
“I wanted to tell you what was going on, but I just couldn’t find the words.” “But wouldn’t we have arrived at the same place, anyway?”
Haruki Murakami • Men Without Women: Stories
We live in this place, in this world, where we can share our words but not our thoughts.
In Mieko Kawakami’s “Breasts and Eggs,” Oppression and Dissent Begin at Women’s Bodies - Words Without Borders
“And sometimes I have kept
my feelings to myself because
I could find no language to describe them in.”
-Jane Austen
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
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