Quotes about Inadequacy of words

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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudib — Theodore Dreiser
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. — Jalaluddin Rumi
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. — Edward Hopper
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at al — Patricia A. McKillip, In the Forests of Serre
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. — William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child. — Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name and dates, carved b — Stuart Nadler, The Inseparables
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything — Aldous Huxley