Top 100 Cannot Express Quotes

#1. An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

Andrea Bocelli

#2. Yet because her needs and yearnings are real and pressing, she must find some way to express them: she puts into body what she cannot yet put into words. Her eating disorder serves as her voice, her attempt to express and meet her needs and desires without directly asking for anything.

Sheila M. Reindl

#3. People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.

Kate Winslet

#4. Groans that words cannot express" (Rom. 8:26) are often prayers that God cannot refuse. Charles H. Spurgeon

Lettie B. Cowman

#5. Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver.

Billy Graham

#6. I cannot express enough how every decision that we make as human beings is so critical to those that come after us. It may not seem like much at the time, but some of our decisions affect children generations long after we are gone from this place.

Ahmad Aleem Williams

#7. Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

Alan Dershowitz

#8. That which you cannot express is Love.
That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty.
That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#9. Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

Franz Kafka

#10. If we cannot express our
assumptions explicitly in ways that
others can understand and build
upon, there can be no larger process
of testing those assumptions and
building public knowledge.

Peter M. Senge

#11. You cannot truly express yourself until you first discover who you are.

Gangaji

#12. But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may well exist, but which we cannot define.

Declan Donnellan

#13. Since Winston cannot express himself openly in society for fear of punishment, the diary becomes an important medium for him to express his true feelings about the state and the Party.

Trisha Lively

#14. Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.

Bradley Joseph

#15. Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#16. Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.

Alyssa Milano

#17. Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.

Harry S. Truman

#18. Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

John Dryden

#19. Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

Confucius

#20. Since the future cannot be known and everything is changeable, I beg all of you to find the people you have come to love and express yourself with fervency. You will never have this chance again.

Michael Levy

#21. If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

Julie Taymor

#23. I am feeling more. I feel everything more. I cannot express it. I can hardly keep track of it all. It is you! All you! Everything!

Dawn Metcalf

#24. I want the thing I cannot express. The one thing I am missing." Even

Kara Hart

#25. The is nothing that art cannot express

Oscar Wilde

#26. There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! ... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.

Agatha Christie

#27. What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words, music can express.
Whoever knows the mystery of vibrations indeed knows all things.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#28. I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

Pat Conroy

#29. J..You are the love of my life..of my forever. Words cannot express what you mean to me, but i'll tell you a hundred times a day for the rest of my life. I love you. R

Kahlen Aymes

#30. Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.

J. Patrick Lewis

#31. Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

Eugene Kennedy

#32. People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

Yi-Fu Tuan

#33. The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.

Michael Pollan

#34. And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity ... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.

Anton Webern

#35. Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

Hans Werner Henze

#36. Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Rudolf Bing

#37. Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.

O Shakoor

#38. I cannot express to you how grateful I am that I am a Christian. Before I was a Christian, I went through a time in my life where I just didn't know why I was alive.

Ray Comfort

#39. Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.

Joseph Heller

#40. Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.

Mario Giacomelli

#41. The only truth is that we cannot speak the truth . The only acceptable viewpoint is that we cannot express a viewpoint.

Murong Xuecun

#42. I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

Mary Shelley

#43. I must pour out my heart in the language which his Spirit gives me; and more than that, I must trust in the Spirit to speak the unutterable groanings of my spirit, when my lips cannot actually express all the emotions of my heart.

Charles Spurgeon

#44. Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.

Albert Einstein

#45. You are strong, omnipotent, and omniscient. No matter that you have not expressed it yet, it is in you. All knowledge is in you, all power, all purity, and all freedom-why cannot you express this knowledge? Because you do not believe in it ... Believe in it, and it must and will come out.

Swami Vivekananda

#46. I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

Jane Chen

#47. Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Hector Berlioz

#48. When our will is strong and aligned with Divine intent, there is nothing we cannot do or be. With power and guidance flowing through us, Life becomes an effortless dance as we relinquish control and limitation and allow our Spirit Within to express itself.

Peter Santos

#49. Music is the language of soul; it can express the deepest feelings of life which language cannot touch.

Debasish Mridha

#50. Those who can think, but cannot express what they think, place themselves at the level of those who cannot think.

Pericles

#51. Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

George Harrison

#52. Knowledge can be expressed, but not wisdom. One can discover it, one can live it, one can be borne along by it, one can do miracles with it, but one cannot express it and teach it.

Hermann Hesse

#53. - 'My lord, if a man cannot express his honestly held views in the Central Criminal Court, perhaps you can advise me where else he is free to state that which he believes to be the truth?

Jeffrey Archer

#54. All that's happened is inconsequential; it cannot hurt us anymore; there's only music, which lives within us and beyond us, needing us to express it but capable of surviving forever between expressions.

William T. Vollmann

#55. Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

Charlotte Bronte

#56. Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

John Lydon

#57. The genuiness of our worship cannot be measured in decibels of sound, and although it is vital that we express our love for God vocally, He looks to see the evidence in our lives.

Graham Kendrick

#58. I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

Duane Michals

#59. When we see Reality, we are completely beyond the world of words and concepts. We experience what words cannot express, what ideas cannot contain, what speech cannot communicate.

Steve Hagen

#60. I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience ... How would they know?

Marvin Minsky

#61. Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

Charles Darwin

#62. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Charles Darwin

#63. Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.

Albert Camus

#64. All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

Adriana Trigiani

#65. The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

Claude Debussy

#66. Ours is the fellowship of strangers who know a secret that we cannot express.

Claire North

#67. We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

P.D. Ouspensky

#68. The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

Henri Matisse

#69. Since we cannot see Christ, we cannot express our love to Him. But we do see our neighbor, and we can do for him what we would do for Christ if He were visible.

Mother Teresa

#70. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.

Saint John Chrysostom

#71. We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

Arthur Dove

#72. Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,
of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.

Sophie Swetchine

#73. Tears are words the heart cannot express

Gerard Way

#74. New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Jackson Pollock

#75. Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not - they cannot - express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact, all too often, such things get in the way. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it.

Steve Hagen

#76. The years of searching in the dark for a truth that one feels but cannot express, the intense desire and the alternations of confidence and misgiving until one breaks through to clarity and understanding, are known only to him who has experienced them himself.

Albert Einstein

#77. In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Nicolas Chamfort

#78. You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Marya Mannes

#79. Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.

Michael Shaara

#80. One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#81. I can only feel the 'I.'
I can know who I am not.
I can know what I am not.
But, who I am,
I cannot express;
I cannot describe it in words.

Santosh Lamichhane

#82. You cannot express in the outside world what does not exist in the inside world.

Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

#83. Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

Anthony Trollope

#84. It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Arthur Helps

#85. Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

Joyce Carol Oates

#86. A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton

#87. If a person's mind is controlled by forces of revenge and jealousy, it cannot express love & sympathy. And even if they show love and sympathy to others it will yield no good result. The thought will not be reflected in love but in hate.

Virchand Gandhi

#88. Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels?

Leo Tolstoy

#89. Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

Gwen Harwood

#90. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.

Lord Kelvin

#91. But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#92. It is hot, the light is strong and I have an extraordinary sense of clarity, although quite what is clear I cannot express.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#93. A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art.

Wassily Kandinsky

#94. One cannot wonder that so very fine a
young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should
think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has
a right to be proud.

Jane Austen

#95. What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

Naum Gabo

#96. It is unnecessary to spoil your precious involvements with a person with some word. We cannot name and express every human relationship or feeling, and we confine our involvements by naming them.

M. T. Panchal

#97. The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

Mortimer J. Adler

#98. Still, a person who cannot express love is stopping the flow of life, is censoring where censorship is a form of self-indulgence, the fear of giving oneself away.

May Sarton

#99. All of that pile on you so that, sooner or later, you cannot bear it anymore. And in that situation I started to write, because there was no other ways for me to express, except through the vicious cycle of words.

Herta Muller

#100. Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

Erica Jong

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