Quotes About Ineffable

For some moments in life, there are no words.

By definition, soul evades the cage of definition. It is the indefinable essence of a person's spirit and being. It can never be touched and yet the merest hint of its absence causes immediate distress.

It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to speak it all.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

I can't translate myself into language any more.

You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.

So when we talk about God we're using language, language that employs a vast array of words and phrases and forms to describe a reality that is fundamentally beyond words and phrases and forms.

some stories don't need telling

Ik denk dat er verhalen zijn die niet verteld hoeven te worden.

What can I say, friends?" he cried. "This is the thing itself, there are no words for this. This is what words ask for.

This is the thing itself, there are no words for this. This is what words ask for.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

No mind of a creature can attain Him.

But it was the kind of experience—like death, like the glow of a jewel, like the beauty of a sunset—that is almost impossible to convey to others.

Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.

Thoughts have unique beauties, you will never be able to express it in words.

Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.

Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.

the word love has no decent definition!

I adore a God who is beyond words yet contained in the word Jesus.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself

When I'm asked to define God, I'm almost wordless.