Quotes and Sayings about Words

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Magic

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

William Shakespeare in Richard II

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

Love Writing

After all, only so much we can say,
words can lose their meaning, once you walk away.

Hollywood Undead - Lion

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

Appearance

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

A heavy hart can't be freed by words. But words can lead to action.

Friedrich Schiller

Heart

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

John Keating in Dead Poets Society

Thoughts

Long before blades and sorcery are needed, words... can save a soul.

Yone the Unforgotten in League of Legends

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Poetry Writing

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Stephen King in The Stand

Writing

Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way, they can turn into ugly weapons.

Conan Edogawa in Case Closed (Detective Conan)

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.

Neil Postman

Writing

That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?

Pascal Mercier in Night Train to Lisbon

Love is a word you gave it a name.

Love

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

Reading

He who doesn't recognize the value of silence, doesn't know about the power of words.

Pavel Kosorin

Silence

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Mark Twain

Truth

Humans use more words, but say less.

Naafiri, the Hound of a Hundred Bites in League of Legends

Say something worth the words.

Tracy Chevalier

Words are where most change begins.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Words of Radiance

Words have a way of fanning into wildfires.

Foundation - Season 1

The right word cuts more deeply than a knife.

Camille, the Steel Shadow in League of Legends

Knifes

Too easily, words of war become acts of war.

Maester Luwin in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

War

Words have a lot of power.

Juice WRLD

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Anne Rice

Writing

No armies, no war, no oppression - but words have the ability to change the course of things.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier (as Foreign-Minister of Germany) - February 2015

Peace

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

Joel Osteen

Talking Kindness

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

Caroline Kennedy

Reading

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

Zinedine Zidane

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

Revolution Ideas

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

Writing Media

My father told and taught me that 'the word can hit harder than the fist.'

Wladimir Klitschko

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If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Letters Sentences

People aren't like numbers. They're more like letters. And those letters want to become stories. And dad said that stories need to be shared.

Oskar Schell in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Stories Letters Numbers

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride

Ending Sentences

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Helsinki in Money Heist - Season 4 Episode 5

Love

Those who dream by day are are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Dreaming

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

W. S. Merwin

Poetry

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Banksy in Cut It Out

Reading

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Denahi in Brother Bear

Spring Change Magic

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet

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