Language Of The World Quotes

“I don't know why these things have to be transmitted by word of mouth, he thought. It wasn't exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures.

He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of life cannot be captured in pictures or words.

Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two eyes met, as had theirs here at the well... It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels though time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Smile is the language of the world
Le sourire est la langue du monde
الابتسامة هي لغة العالم”
― Mohammed Fellak

“Because people became fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist