Susan Griffin Quotes

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

The moment you enter into the world of words you start falling away from that which is. The more you enter into language, the farther you are away from existence.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

We live and breathe words.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Being that can be understood is language.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

I gotta use words to talk to you.

Thought is not merely expressed in words, it comes into existence through them

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.