Quotes About Ineffable

Quando se deseja realmente dizer alguma coisa, as palavras são inúteis. Remexo o cérebro e elas vêm, não raras, mas toneladas. Deixam sempre um gosto de poeira na boca - a poeira do que se tentava expressar, e elas dissolveram. Quanto mais palavras ocorrem para vestir uma idéia, mais essa idéia resiste a ser identificada. As sucessivas roupas sufocam a sua nudez. E todas as palavras são uma grande bolha de sabão, às vezes brilhante, mas circundando o vazio.

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.

There is so much to say. It is like shoving all the sand of the world into an hourglass. Or trying to get it out.

No language that I knew had any words to describe him.

I have told my passion, my eyes have spoke it, my tongue pronounced it, and my pen declared it; I have sighed it, wrote it, and subscribed it, now my heart is full of you, my head raves of you and my hand writes to you but all in vain.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable.

I love you, he shouted, but he kept the words inside his head, because they were too small to express the immensity of what he felt.

Ah, dreams which even thoughts must not touch - so wonderful and sacred they were.

You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.

Don't ask me to define love, for love cannot be explained. It can only be felt.

What you mean to me is something out of the ordinary, cause even a whole of a dictionary won't be able to describe it!

Love is beyond the physical.

Almost anything around us of significance is hard to grasp linguistically.

There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe direcly, cannot capture in human language or within the narrow human concepts that are available to us.

I can communicate in 6,909 living and dead languages. I can have more than fifteen billion simultaneous conversations, and be fully engaged in every single one. I can be eloquent, and charming, funny, and endearing, speaking the words you most need to hear, at the exact moment you need to hear them. Yet even so, there are unthinkable moments where I can find no words, in any language, living or dead. And in those moments, if I had a mouth, I might open it to scream.

The things I feel cannot be put into words, or if they can, the words are in no language anyone can understand.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

Sana bu aÅŸk? anlatamam; yirmi alt? veya otuz alt? ya??na gelsen de anlatamam. Akla mant??a s??mayan bir ÅŸey olduÄŸu için insana çok çekici geliyor zaten.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

There's no other word that comes close to describing how you make me feel. Nothing.

La belleza, según la sentimos, es algo indescriptible; jamás puede decirse lo que es ni lo que significa.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.