Something Inexpressible Quotes

#1. It's a big shift. I don't know quite how to explain it. Between wanting and not wanting, caring and not caring. Of course it's a lot more than that too. Shock and aura. Things are stronger and brighter and I feel on the edge of something inexpressible.

Donna Tartt

#2. My eyes always keep searching,
for something inexpressible,
above the far away sky.

I long to get lost,
inside the evening-twilight.

Silence always tickles me -
in a strange way;

I meet "me"
in the time between
sunset and darkness.

Khadija Rupa

#3. In music, she'd found a perfect language, a way of expressing the inexpressible.

Emma Raveling

#4. The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The BEST representation of Source Energy that you will ever find in your physical format is inexpressible. It's that feeling of love and appreciation that just WELLS up within you, that is so sensational that you can hardly find words for it. That's the true ESSENCE of who you are.

Esther Hicks

#6. All the room darkened and my heart again sank; inexpressible sadness weighed it down

Charlotte Bronte

#7. As I see my soul reflected in Nature,
As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty,
See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see.

Walt Whitman

#8. How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Voltaire

#9. The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.

Jerome Frank

#10. Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.

Nick Flynn

#11. One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. In the end that Face which is the delight or terror of the universe must be turned upon each of us either with one expression or with the other, either conferring glory inexpressible or inflicting shame that can never be cured or disguised.

C.S. Lewis

#13. There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.

Josemaria Escriva

#14. For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#15. An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#16. We feel more than we can express, we see more than we can say.

Marty Rubin

#17. Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Umberto Eco

#18. In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

Robert Fripp

#19. This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

T.E. Lawrence

#20. Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated the subject with a great white light, to the inexpressible advancement of human knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

#22. John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him

Alissa York

#23. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.

Sarah Siddons

#25. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

#26. The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

Lajos Kossuth

#27. He had not known until that moment that your heart can break with love, that it can fill with such inexpressible tenderness till you just about can't stand it anymore.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

#28. Tell me why it is that a toddler will gag over a perfectly wonderful breakfast of ham, eggs, biscuits, juice, and jelly. But then he will enthusiastically drink the dog's water and play in the toilet. Truly, he is his mother's greatest challenge ... ; and her most inexpressible joy.

James Dobson

#29. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

Sri Chinmoy

#30. Thoreau and Huxley calmly state what I have spent years trying to articulate, and never found the words for doing so. To read the words of these great men is to read the highest expression of my very self which is inexpressible due to the shortcomings of my particular nature.

Chris Matakas

#31. I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life ... They are the artists of being alive.

Frederick Franck

#32. 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

#33. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

#34. When she got control of herself a few minutes later, she realized that in his arms she felt almost what she had in her dream, that inexpressible sense of peace and security. Of belonging, utterly.
As long as her soulmate was alive, and they were together, she would be all right.

L.J.Smith

#35. Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.

Coventry Patmore

#36. But what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.

Anne Rice

#37. In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said ... of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

Susan Sontag

#38. Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#39. Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

Rumi

#40. You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence.

Bryant McGill