It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.