The Unnamable Quotes

#1. The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Lao-Tzu

#2. These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere ... The Unnamable

Samuel Beckett

#3. A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

#4. Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

Charles Bukowski

#5. Again there was silence - a silence as of consummated Evil brooding above its unnamable triumph.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. You never know when one act, or one word of encouragement can change a life forever.

Zig Ziglar

#7. Mary? She's mine.
Yeah, but we had that thing...
SHE'S MINE!

Louis Tomlinson

#8. When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Samuel Beckett

#9. We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Richard Prince

#10. The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

George V. Higgins

#11. No more than I was to be born.

Spartacus

#12. A king's pride doesn't fill the people's bellies.

Brian McClellan

#13. It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

Terry Eagleton

#14. I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.

Georges St-Pierre

#15. You won't remember what belongs there. You will only feel the ache of absence & know something unnamable is missing

Juliann Garey

#16. taking his lead from Beckett's mighty Unnamable. I can't go on. I'll go on.

Salman Rushdie

#17. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.

Clark Ashton Smith