Top 33 Incommunicable Past Quotes
#1. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
Willa Cather
#2. Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.
Benjamin Graham
#3. He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us. (p. 70)
Rabih Alameddine
#4. I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
Jean-Paul Sartre
#5. Well, you know ... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer ... it's incommunicable ...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#6. You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
George Santayana
#7. Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.
Jacques Barzun
#8. Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
John Jay Chapman
#9. What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#10. Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one ... Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#11. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies- all these are private and except through symbols and at second hand incommunicable.
Aldous Huxley
#12. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#13. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
Jon Krakauer
#14. I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#15. The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
Muhammad Iqbal
#16. Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Andre Breton
#17. When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
Ben Lerner
#18. The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#19. That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#20. So you see how difficult it is to understand one another, my dear angel, how incommunicable thought is, even between two people in love.
Charles Baudelaire
#21. In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#22. There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
Edith Hamilton
#23. Life - give me life until the end,
That at the very top of being,
The battle-spirit shouting in my blood,
Out of the reddest hell of the fight
I may be snatched and flung
Into the everlasting lull,
The immortal, incommunicable dream.
William Ernest Henley
#24. Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#25. I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.
Richard Flanagan
#27. It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She sighed, teased by desires so incoherent, so incommunicable.
Virginia Woolf
#28. How difficult it is to understand each other, my dear angel, and how much thought is incommunicable, even between people who love each other!
Charles Baudelaire
#29. One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...
Peg Bracken
#30. If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.
Phil Klay
#31. It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France.
Milan Kundera
#32. Everything leads us to believe that there exists a spot in the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the high and the low, the communicable and the incommunicable will cease to appear contradictory.
Andre Breton
#33. There are some things which are known only to oneself and one's maker. These are clearly incommunicable.
M K Gandhi
