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“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty."
- Phil Ochs
"What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken."
—
Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 21 July 1912
(via violentwavesofemotion)
Tagged #Virginia Woolf #1912 #diary #quote #quotes #silence #language #communication Posted on 7 April, 2013Reblogged from thisyesthis Source violentwavesofemotion
"Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in ‘sadness,’ ‘joy,’ or ‘regret.’ Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, ‘the happiness that attends disaster.’ Or: ‘the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy.’ I’d like to have a word for ‘the sadness inspired by failing restaurants’ as well as for ‘the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.’ I’ve never had the right words to describe my life."
— Jeffery Eugenides (via heteroglossia)
Tagged #language #Jeffery Eugenides #german #english #experience #words #communication #emotion Posted on 25 March, 2013Reblogged from sheonlysaid Source lynnebj
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Tagged #flower #flowers #nature #art #language of flowers #language #communication Posted on 8 February, 2013Reblogged from thehouseofspook Source necroluste
"Saying nothing sometimes says the most."
— Emily Dickinson (via amandaonwriting)
Tagged #Emily Dickinson #quote #quotes #silence #communication Posted on 3 February, 2013Reblogged from elvesandgnomes Source amandaonwriting
"My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations."
— John Green (via seabois)
Tagged #John Green #star #stars #thought #constellation #communication #language Posted on 23 December, 2012Reblogged from retrojapan Source seabois
Tagged #typography #word #words #vocabulary #lingustics #language #english #communication Posted on 23 December, 2012Reblogged from virtuteleonis Source 100andsome
"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. This is where, I think, language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. It had to be easy when it was just simple survival. “Water.” We came up with a sound for that. “Sabretooth tiger behind you!” We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting, I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we’re experiencing. What is “frustration”? Or what is “anger” or “love”? When I say “love” the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person’s ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love. And they register what I’m saying and they say yes they understand, but how do I know? Because words are inert. They’re just symbols. They’re dead. You know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It’s unspeakable. And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think we’re understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling may be transient, but I think it’s what we live for."
— Richard Linklater, Waking Life (2001)
Tagged #quote #quotes #film #film quotes #Waking Life #Richard Linklater #water #word #words #language #communication #carpe diem #writing inspiration for me Posted on 23 December, 2012Reblogged from locationandmovement-deactivated Source upin-flames
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This photograph reminds me of a very similar drawing that I reblogged about two weeks ago right here.
Tagged #typography #hand #hands #hand gesture #finger #body language #marriage #portrait #communication #language Posted on 17 November, 2012Reblogged from lies-cause-love Source sydneygotswaggggggg
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This. This. This. This. This. This. This. This.
I hope that “gay” does not end up with the same result as the words “lame” and “dumb”. If what I gather is correct, the latter two originally meant “not able to walk” and “deaf”. Now the latter two are pejoratives.
Tagged #communication #gay #language #lgbt #social awareness #word #words #typography Posted on 3 November, 2012Reblogged from sierrasky Source loveincolor.org
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This is probably mainly American based since I know in some countries that any hand gesture is the equivalent of giving someone the bird, but this is great. I like this image.
Tagged #body language #communication #finger #fingers #gesture #hand #hand gesture #love #promise #art Posted on 3 November, 2012Reblogged from lies-cause-love Source lianabakbak
Tagged #typography #language #french #definition #word #communication #lost in translation #perception #psychology Posted on 3 November, 2012Reblogged from violetelectron Source thefamemonsterrrr
"Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (via anglicansaint)
Tagged #Jean-Paul Sartre #quote #quotes #thought #thoughts #word #words #communication Posted on 22 September, 2012Reblogged from iprefereccentric Source anglicansaint
"What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman’s silence?"
— Jules Michelet (via fetishofsilence)
Tagged #Jules Michelet #silence #eloquence #communication #quote #quotes Posted on 4 July, 2012Reblogged from paintedfire Source fetishofsilence
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
— Elbert Hubbard (via light-essence)
Tagged #Elbert Hubbard #quote #quotes #silence #communication Posted on 3 July, 2012Reblogged from space88oddity Source quote-book
"Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone."
— Paul Johannes Tillich (via lostinthesounds)
Tagged #Paul Johannes Tillich #quote #quotes #loneliness #solitude #pain #language #communication Posted on 1 July, 2012Reblogged from retrojapan Source lostinthesounds
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