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Quotes About Ineffable

I don't think you can define love.
~ Harry Styles
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
~ Rumi
Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.
~ Rumi
My wickedness, as I am in myself, has long appeared to me perfectly ineffable, and infinitely swallowing up all thought and imagination; like an infinite deluge or infinite mountains over my head.
~ Jonathan Edwards
something in the world it's not expressed in words ----- just feel it ......
~ being human
What I know about love, I can write on the head of a matchstick.
~ Barbara Avon, STATIC
I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.
~ John Burnside
Perhaps some things should remain mysteries and are better kept in our hearts. We should not try to explain them. (p. 86)
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.
~ William Maxwell
Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.
~ Michael Chabon
Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.
~ Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
What I feel for you can't be conveyed in phrasal combinations; It either screams out loud or stays painfully silent but I promise — it beats words. It beats worlds. I promise
~ Katherine Mansfield
Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
~ Beilby Porteus
Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The whys and wherefores didn't need to be said. If you are reading this have ever loved someone, you will understand. Putting it into words is useless. The uninitiated cannot understand the mysterious.
~ Jose Rizal
You lose it if you talk about it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
For millennia, artists and mystics have pondered the question of how to represent that which, by definition, cannot or must not be represented.
~ Trevor Paglen
I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
~ Annie Baker
Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.
~ Bill Condon
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
~ Martin Mull
But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.
~ Gregory Maguire
Nessuno, mai, riesce a dare l'esatta misura di ciò che pensa, di ciò che soffre, della necessità che lo incalza, e la parola umana è spesso come un pentolino di latta su cui andiamo battendo melodie da far ballare gli orsi mentre vorremmo intenerire le stelle.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Mora da osje?aji imaju malo rije?i kojima mogu da se služe.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Leider kann ich nicht in Worte fassen, wie sehr ich dieses Spiel liebe. Ich könnt ein 1000-seitiges Buch schreiben und es wäre dennoch nicht genug.
~ H.P. Lovecraft