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Quotes About Inarticulate

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
~ Tanya Tucker
Can you make her out at all?' Benjamin shrugged. As usual, in Cicely's presence, he was afraid of appearing inarticulate, and as usual, this fear robbed him of his power of speech.
~ Jonathan Coe
My mind becomes congested, jammed with feelings and thoughts that I can't formulate nimbly enough.
~ Rabih Alameddine
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
~ Eddie Marsan
Profanity is the linguistic crutch of inarticulate fuckheads.
~ James Carlos Blake
Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.
~ Douglas Adams
He belonged to that inarticulate order of young Englishmen who dislike any form of emotion, and who find it peculiarly hard to explain their mental processes in words.
~ Agatha Christie
Since their playing lacked nuance, they deprived themselves of speech—for nuance, after all, is where meaningful speech resides. Without it, the language of music is ineluctably returned to its postnatal beginnings, where the only sounds to be heard are the inarticulate cries of an infant.
~ Alan Walker
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all, from time to time, inarticulate, at some level, about some things.
~ Graham Swift
Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.
~ Vernon Lee
A flashlight held against the skin might just as well be off. Art, like light, needs distance, and anyone who attempts to render sexual experience directly must face the fact that the writhings which comprise it are ludicrous without their subjective content, that the intensity of that content quickly outruns its apparent cause, that the full experience becomes finally inarticulate, and that there is no major art that works close in. Not an enterprise for amateurs. Even the best are betrayed.
~ William H. Gass
Boys are always inarticulate where their deepest feelings are concerned; however much they may desire it they cannot express kind and sympathetic feelings.
~ William Henry Hudson
Ug-g-Ug. Ohhh Ohh g. Ugg.
~ Janet Frame
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.
~ Edith Wharton
There was in him a slumbering spark of sociability which the long Starkfield winters had not yet extinguished. By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
~ Edith Wharton
bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate...happens to me on a daily basis!
~ Edith Wharton
he plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate
~ Edith Wharton
plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.
~ Edith Wharton
Quien siente mucho, se jode y no encuentra palabras y entonces no habla y es ésa su condena.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
~ Paul Wellstone
We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.
~ William Saroyan
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.
~ Deb Caletti
I'm not really good at talking.
~ J Hus
You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.
~ Hildur Gudnadottir