The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

Augusto Roa Bastos
Some Similar Quotes
  1. All words are pegs to hang ideas on. - Henry Ward Beecher
  2. A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. - Anonymous
  3. No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake.... - Alexander Trocchi
  4. Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon. - Joseph Bruchac
  5. A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping. - Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By Augusto Roa Bastos
  1. It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.
  2. Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.
  3. To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.
  4. Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.
  5. The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.
Related Topics