It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood. — Karl Popper
The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art. — Charles Simic
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought. — T. E. Lawrence
The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token,
is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken. — Moondog
A word once uttered can never be recalled. — Horace
Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — Haruki Murakami
The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid. — Taylor Swift
The most important things are the hardest to say — Stephen King
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. — George Santayana
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. — James Earl Jones
Short Unsayable Quotes
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday. — Chinua Achebe
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. — Matthew Henry
World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters. — Rumi
Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth. — Eugene Ionesco
No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces — C. S. Lewis
It takes a child to say the unsayable. — Nick Hornby
Unsayable Image Quotes
Unutterable Quotes
Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. — Jean Paul
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
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.
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
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
[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith. — Macarius of Egypt
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. — E. B. White
He whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Unknowable Quotes
Better the devil you know than the angel you don't. — Hama Tuma
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. — Rene Magritte
The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what? — Edward Abbey
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt. — Leslie Stephen
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing. — Mother Teresa
If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another. — Erich Maria Remarque
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
It’s very hard to say how big the effects will be or how long they will last. That’s going to depend of course on how widely the virus spreads, which is something that is highly uncertain and I would say, in fact, unknowable. — Jerome Powell
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life — Rainer Maria Rilke
My motivation for 20 years, for 10 years with WikiLeaks, has been to publish true information that is otherwise unsayable. So we're not in competition, if you like. — Julian Assange
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut. — Max Beckmann
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. — Salman Rushdie
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. — Italo Calvino
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them. — Chuck Palahniuk
Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. — David Bowie
There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist. — David Bowie
I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story. — Hampton Fancher
At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas. — Terence McKenna
If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this? — Robert Penn Warren
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke
He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse. — Matthew Henry
To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. — Gwen Harwood
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it. — Marie Howe
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it. — Jonathan Sacks
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