Quotes About Unutterable

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

The ineffable would not be ineffable if it could be described.

There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

There are just some feelings, I've learned, for which we never invented the right words.

There are just some feelings, I've learned, for which we never invented the right words.

That Christmastime night, all Mr. Lockley could manage to direct to Elaine was a minimally cordial bow—as if he were saying the unutterable, "Good evening, knocked-up faculty daughter. How are you managing now, you smelly little slut?

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

Unspeakable"--unspeakability?--comes in three varieties. First, that which cannot be said because one does not know it, and therefore cannot say it. Second, that which cannot be spoken because it is culturally impermissible to do so. And third, that which cannot be named because it is impossible, since the language provides no terms, no words to enable articulation.

Many things are too delicate to be thought, much less spoken of in words.

Ma tristesse est indéfinissable. Vous avez raison de m'adresser ce reproche. La parole ne peut jamais dire ce dont je veux parler et je ne sais comment le dire...

The majority of important things cannot be said outright.