Quotes About Ineffable

It is impossible for anyone to adequately express the deep movements of love within the spiritual life. It cannot be done by words, by art, or by any way other than the love with which one lives one's life.

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced - it can not be told.

In the Old Language, he whispered, "I am barren of words, my female. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.

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.

But for real, I want to tell you what you mean to me, but it's like trying to count the seconds of a day on your fingers and toes.

Some things by their nature cannot be mapped.

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.

Les mots manquent aux émotions.

How can I possibly fold all that longing into something as small as words?

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

Trying to explain or define grace is like catching the wind in a cardboard box or describing the color green.

Finding words of no avail, I next resorted to tears.

God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary.

Words can't say this. The one word 'love' means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough. It doesn't communicate even the fraction of the feeling involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is.love.Love.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can't explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is a transcendental dimension beyond language... It's just hard as hell to talk about!

God can never be a definition. He is more than even the entirety of the dictionary.

I couldn't tell what my mother was feeling. I only knew that I felt as if I had found some precious, mysterious thing I could never name, but that I had searched for my entire life, and now it was finally within reach.

The burden of the incommunicable.