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Quotes About Inexpressible

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
~ Tanya Tucker
What can't be known or named except in our feeble attempt to clothe it in language.
~ Joseph Campbell
Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as one would mostly have us believe; most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Things are not as easy to understand and say as we might prefer to believe; most events are inexpressible, happening in a space where no word has ever set foot, and most inexpressible of all are works of art, mysterious existences, whose life continues as ours passes away.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
As coisas estão longe de ser todas tão tangíveis e dizíveis quanto se nos pretenderia fazer crer; a maior parte dos acontecimentos é inexprimível e ocorre num espaço em que nenhuma palavra pisou.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing can touch a work of art less than critical words; all that comes of that are more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things are not as easy to understand and say as we might prefer to believe; most events are inexpressible, happening in a space where no word has ever set foot, and most inexpressible of all are works of art, mysterious existences, whose life continues as ours passes away.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
His feelings were too much for speech, and suddenly he broke down.
~ Joseph Conrad
There are no words for the sort of things I wanted to say. If I had opened my lips just then I would have simply howled like an animal. I was asking myself when I would wake up.
~ Joseph Conrad
Human language is too poor to express the real nature of the Absolute Truth or Ultimate Reality which is Nirvana. Language is created and used by masses of human beings to express things and ideas experienced by their sense organs and their mind. A supramundane experience like that of the Absolute Truth is not of such a category. Therefore there cannot be words to express that experience, just as the fish had no words in his vocabulary to express the nature of the solid land.
~ Walpola Rahula
after the birth of her first child. It read: "Full of unexplainable love. And exhausted to the bone." Some things are difficult to describe, even for the most articulate, and sometimes the descriptions seem contradictory. It's hard to put big experiences into words.
~ James Martin
birth of her first child. It read: "Full of unexplainable love. And exhausted to the bone." Some things are difficult to describe, even for the most articulate, and sometimes the descriptions seem contradictory. It's hard to put big experiences into words.
~ James Martin
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
~ Melvin Calvin
Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.
~ Nick Littlemore
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I heard the phrases and I wanted all of me to call out in a song, a song that doesn't have words, a song that almost doesn't have noise. A lot of people take a short cut and call that feeling of song love. They just call it that because there isn't a way to describe it. But the word love doesn't describe the half of it. It doesn't do anything to bring to mind the song we all want so desperately to sing.
~ Jane Hamilton
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous Huxley
Of course, grief. Grief for a thing too big to see.
~ Richard Powers
The unspeakable is a wound that stays open always, always, and forever.
~ Yiyun Li
Nothing," Elsa lied. It wasn't possible to put all she was thinking into words.
~ Jen Calonita
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
~ Ella Maillart
Tak ada yang lebih menyakitkan dari kepedihan yang tak bisa ditangiskan.
~ Dewi Lestari
Words can not express the joy of new life.
~ Hermann Hesse
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
~ Francis Bacon
When people ask, 'How does it feel to be a dad?' Nothing I could've expected. It's better in such a different way. It's like unless you actually experience it, there's just no way you can explain with words.
~ Artem Chigvintsev