Dead Language Quotes

“To remember
Is not to rehearse, but to hear what never
Has fallen silent.”
― W.S. Merwin, Green With Beasts

“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially
speaking.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“Latin is a dead tongue
And Romans made songs!
Then no one disagree:
It delighted them in theory
Now it's "the Latin" in me.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“Etymological fallacy is the worst sort of pedantry: a meaningless personal opinion trying to dress itself up as concern for preserving historical principles. It misses that language change itself is a historical principle: a language that doesn't change is a dead language”
― Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries