Top 42 Unutterable Quotes
#1. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Arthur Rimbaud
#2. Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#3. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
Emily Bronte
#4. I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country ...
Sarah-Patton Boyle
#5. servomechanism in which a moral vacuum had been so successfully sucked clean of every molecule of real qualm or scruple that his own descriptions of the unutterable crimes he perpetrated daily seem often to float outside and apart from evil, phantasms of cretinous innocence. Yet
William Styron
#6. There then passed a period of time in which Jane said many unutterable things.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#7. Four months or so of torturing ecstasy in his society - of "pleasure girded about with pain." After that the blackness of unutterable night.
Thomas Hardy
#8. How can it be that the most wonderous and sacred human space - the womb - has become a place of unutterable violence?
Pope Benedict XVI
#9. The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.
Robert Anderson
#10. Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
Can match the fierce unutterable pain
He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
Carries his own accuser in his breast.
Juvenal
#11. If a man truly loves, ... He does not consider the obstacles, the restrictions, the reasons why his choice may be flawed or impratical. He gives no heed to what others may think. His heart has no room for that, for it is filled to the brim with the unutterable truth of his feelings.
Juliet Marillier
#12. Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Rene Daumal
#13. The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.
Kobo Abe
#14. Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#15. The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.
H.P. Lovecraft
#17. The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
Adrienne Rich
#18. My dearest Miss Farthing, will you do me the unutterable honor of wearing this cheap bit of metal that will most likely turn your finger green, pretending to love and honor me as your husband for the purposes of subterfuge and stratagem?
Lisa Mantchev
#19. Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#20. It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things - the thought of God comes into one's mind.
Vincent Van Gogh
#21. The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.
Timothy Radcliffe
#22. Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing ... I am in full sunshine now.
Robert Browning
#23. God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
Jean Paul
#24. I believe that if there is one thing which pierces the Master's heart with unutterable grief, it is not the world's iniquity, but the Church's indifferences.
F.B. Meyer
#25. Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.
Charles Wright
#26. I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
Tony Abbott
#27. I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?
Frank W. Boreham
#29. most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in a sphere where word has never trod, and more unutterable than them all are works of art, whose life endures by the side of our own that passes away.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#30. Therefore the elect shall go forth ... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.
Peter Lombard
#31. 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
#32. One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.
Sophocles
#33. There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.
Rajneesh
#34. They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
#35. After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love
I have found you.
Charlotte Bronte
#36. I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears.
Charlotte Bronte
#37. People care about the unutterable awe of American heroes stabbing into the heavens on columns of fire.
Margaret Lazarus Dean
#38. Faith is unutterable trust in God, trust which never dreams that He will not stand by us.
Oswald Chambers
#39. So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#40. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#41. The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a ghastly risk, and, in the case of the vast majority of human beings, an inconceivable misfortune.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
