“ How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 291
“ Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 391
“ In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. ”
- Czeslaw Milosz- Copy
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“ It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. ”
- Vincent van Gogh- Copy
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“ I believe devoutly in the Word. The Word can save all, destroy all, stop the inevitable, and express the inexpressible. ”
- Nina Voronel- Copy
- 338
“ The impact of television on our culture is... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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“ One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable. ”
- Sebastian Coe- Copy
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“ It's indescribable. You hold this newborn, and you realize you've got responsibilities like you've never had before. ”
- Tom Cruise- Copy
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“ We are trying to describe the indescribable. It's impossible, but I'm going to try it anyway, and take what you can from it. ”
- Jimmy Webb- Copy
- 2K
“ The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means. ”
- David Bowie- Copy
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“ Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way. ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
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“ Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. ”
- Rene Daumal- Copy
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“ I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
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“ God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. ”
- Jean Paul Richter- Copy
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“ What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. ”
- Luigi Pirandello- Copy
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“ Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express. ”
- Caldwell O’Keefe- Copy
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