„Words rose above the intolerably laden dumb oxen plodding through the mud. Words without meaning – wonderful words.“

— Virginia Woolf
„Signs are taken for wonders. “We would see a sign!”The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?""It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words…“
— Cassandra Clare
„Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.“
— Zhuangzi
„The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.“
— Anne Sexton
„Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words.You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings… but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.“
— Robert A. Heinlein