“ After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity. ”
- Arthur Chapman- Copy
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“ Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity. ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
- 3K
“ It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. ”
- Czeslaw Milosz- Copy
- 4K
“ Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Travel, then, is a voyage into that famously subjective zone, the imagination, and what the traveler brings back is — and has to be — an ineffable compound of himself and the place, what's really there and what's only in him. ”
- Pico Iyer- Copy
- 694
“ 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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“ 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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“ I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
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“ The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. ”
- Timothy Radcliffe- Copy
- 2.2K
“ 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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“ Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace. ”
- Alexis Carrel- 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
- 3.5K
“ 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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“ 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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“ 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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“ The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- 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
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“ The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power. ”
- H. R. Haweis- Copy
- 2.6K
“ How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- 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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“ 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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