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Quotes About Ineffable

Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with! Here is a picture of him!
~ Tennessee Williams
If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them. * Although, unless the ineffable plan is a lot more ineffable than it's given credit for, it does not have a giant plastic snowman at the bottom.
~ Terry Pratchett
Firstly, that God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players,* to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
~ Terry Pratchett
Roland Barthes says, "That which cannot be named is a disturbance.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
~ Brian Andreas
There are certain situations in which you can't convey what you mean. Words don't always work.
~ Brian Morton
I think I see his impious end; but feel that I must help him to it. Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have no knife to cut.
~ Herman Melville
Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence.
~ Herman Melville
Las cosas mas maravillosas son siempre las inexpresables.
~ Herman Melville
The first experience of the inner realm is impossible to describe, but the feelings it involes are those of terror, wonder, and sheer disbelief.
~ Storm Constantine
You know you're in love when you cant even put into words, how you feel for a person.
~ Dylan West
Love don't have definition .It was just as it was since the world was created. People are just trying to explain it in vain.
~ Bikash Bhandari
My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Love is just love it can not be expressed in just 3 words
~ Utsav Sharma
True love is a feeling...which can neither be defined nor described!
~ Gladys Bejani
I'm so deeply in love with you it's hard to fathom. No words could provide quantifiable resonance or measure.
~ Truth Devour, Wantin
How beautiful it is to feel that what you cannot describe?
~ Saim .A. Cheeda
Language lacks the power to describe Faith.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Todo forma parte de algo que no podemos entender, pero que nos posee.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There was a sense of being in the midst of something having prodigious weight and volume but no form, of being utterly unable to utilize past experience.
~ Thomas Gallagher
Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.
~ Thomas Hardy
He was more beautiful than words can say, and Aschenbach felt painfully, as he had often done, that words are able to praise physical beauty but not to reproduce it.
~ Thomas Mann
God is spirit, and above languages is language.
~ Thomas Mann
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.
~ Katherine Mansfield