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Quotes About Unspeakable

Oh what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh what an unspeakable privilege is prayer!
~ Lady Maxwell
So I'm going to do an H.P. Lovecraft and write that it was so horrible that it cannot be described, and leave it at that.
~ Jeff Strand
It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Your retaliation is unspeakable. For this alone, you must forgive me for my treatment of you. Still high-handed? I literally risked my neck just now to say that in front of you.
~ Kresley Cole
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all.
~ Dorkly
The whole project of science," she explains, "is to crush any notion of powerful nonhuman Others," and the vocation of the scientist is "to keep all that was uncanny or unspeakable stuffed out of sight.
~ Jeffrey J. Kripal
his eyes burning with the unspeakable torture of his impotence. His hands had refused once more to produce anything clear or lifelike (45)
~ Émile Zola
Cthulhu was ready for that one; he had been practicing his answer for that very question with Hastur the Unspeakable only the previous night.
~ Eoin Colfer
Genocide is a word. Like the words "love" or "God," it seems to be comprehensible. But in fact it cannot be grasped, it cannot be taken in. It is the unspeakable made verbal.
~ Eric Bogosian
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
~ Ella Maillart
The world has drifted unspeakably far from its origin and intention, and is not a worthy guide to what is right, true, and healing.
~ Alan Cohen
Being, a bundle of minute, unique particulars in which, by some unspeakable and yet self-evident paradox, was to be seen the divine source of all existence.
~ Aldous Huxley
And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?
~ W. D. Snodgrass
El verdadero dolor es inefable, nos deja sordos y mudos, está más allá de toda descripción y todo consuelo. El verdadero dolor es una ballena demasiado grande para poder ser arponeada.
~ Rosa Montero
supe lo que era el dolor psíquico, que es devastador por lo inefable.
~ Rosa Montero
I can't describe what I'm feeling, she said. To anyone.
~ Alice Sebold
Remember this-- say it & know it is true: Alice loves me Alice loves me and I am not blamed for this. ... she knows-- & keeps the record that this unspeakable violation of all of us so briefly human is happening to me.
~ Alice Walker
Ignorance was, in the end, and in so many ways, a privilege: to find a shell, to feel it, to understand only on some unspeakable level why it bothered to be so lovely. What joy he found in that, what utter mystery.
~ Anthony Doerr
In short order, the unconventional became the established convention; the perverse was embraced as normal; the unspeakable was broadcast everywhere; the outrageous was met with enthusiastic applause.
~ Roger Kimball
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn't begin to express in their fragile English.
~ Amy Tan