It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
I don't like it when people don't act on their words.
Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
I hate that word dysfunction.
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.