Quotes About Unspeakable

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

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.

In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

There are three kinds of secrets: something that you hide at the bottom of your heart because you don't want it to be mentioned. Something that you can't say even if you want to, and something that you hope someone asks about even though you're hiding it.

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.

Desperation grew teeth. Claws. It became an animal inside me that knew no bounds, unspeakable, just as Jafir had tried to explain to me so long ago. It tore open my darkest thoughts, letting them unfurl like black wings.

But often in the world's most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspeakable desireAfter the knowledge of our buried life.

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

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

O Lord, I am distressed at my slow manifestation of any of the beauty of holiness that might express my unspeakable gratitude for Thy salvation, such lack of the winsome. O Lord, cause me by looking to Thee to be radiant.

There are no words for this.