Limits Of Language Quotes

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D.H. Lawrence
“Many ways she tried, of escape. She became an assiduous church-goer. But the language meant nothing to her: it seemed false. She hated to hear things expressed, put into words. Whilst the religious feelings were inside her they were passionately moving. In the mouth of the clergyman, they were false, indecent. She tried to read. But again the tedium and the sense of falsity of the spoken word put her off. She went to stay with girl friends. At first she thought it splendid. But then the inner boredom came on, it seemed to her all nothingness. And she felt always belittled, as if never, never could she stretch her length and stride her stride.”
D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“After the evasion of the death of the human and that of the human race, the most useful use of words is to show or remind us of the limits of language.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana