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Quotes About Inexpressible

for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations.
~ John Piper
Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 PETER 1 : 8 – 9
~ Sarah Young
unspeakable.
~ Mark Twain
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I don't think you can define love.
~ Harry Styles
She nodded silently, unable to name as joy any part of the things she felt.
~ Ayn Rand
I'll walk forever with stories inside me that the people I love the most can never hear.
~ Michelle Hodkin
Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.
~ Michael Chabon
Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express
~ Beilby Porteus
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Lamantia is faith building, encouraging poetry in that it abstractly hugs you by finally capturing the inexpressible. It's an experience similar to relief, reading his poems.
~ Weyes Blood
You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.
~ Vanna Bonta
The same inexpressible Truth is experienced in two ways: as Self-luminous Silence, or as the Eternal Play of the One.
~ Anandamayi Ma
Stephen's face lost its tension, and I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.
~ Rumi
Encontrar palavras impossíveis, palavras que refletem sentimentos belos e intraduzíveis, daquelas que precisavam de um parágrafo inteiro em castelhano. Quando um dos dois encontrava uma palavra, oferecia-a ao outro como um tesouro. E logo agora, como o sopro do vento através das nuvens, uma das suas favoritas acabava de se materializar à sua frente, uma linha prateada, trémula, imperfeita. Mångata.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Besides being the world the kind of sadness that can not be expressed in tears. You can not explain it to anyone. Unable to take any shape, settles quietly in the bottom of the heart as snow during the windless night.
~ Haruki Murakami
There was nothing I could say, so I said nothing.
~ Haruki Murakami
Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.
~ Haruki Murakami
En este mundo existe un tipo de tristeza que no te permite verter lágrimas. Es una de esas cosas que no puedes explicar a nadie y, aunque pudieras, nadie te comprendería. Y esa tristeza, sin cambiar de forma, va acumulándose en silencio en tu corazón como la nieve durante una noche sin viento.
~ Haruki Murakami
I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.
~ Siri Hustvedt
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If a wound is great you cannot turn it into something that is spoken, it can barely be written.
~ Michael Ondaatje