Quotes About Ineffability

#1. Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.

Frederick Lenz

#2. The claw, that's the beast that enters your flesh; the sucker, that's you yourself who enters into the beast. ( ... ) Beyond the terror of being eaten alive is the ineffability of being drunk alive.

Victor Hugo

#3. I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.

Ben Brantley

#4. You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.

Michael Moorcock

#6. It seems to me that the pleasure one feels in a work of art is just one thing that one does not have to explain.

Willa Cather

#7. That's inches away from being millimetre perfect.

Ted Lowe

#8. The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Don DeLillo

#9. The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

George Orwell

#10. Pain is there to tell us when we've done something badly - it's a teacher, a guide, one that is always there to both warn us of our limitations and challenge us to overcome them.

Jim Butcher

#11. But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

Owen Wister

#12. Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.

Sam Kean

#13. I don't take characters home with me.

Sissy Spacek