prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The last thing I would want is for Monbiot, Mann, Flannery, Jones, Hansen and the rest of the Climate rogues' gallery to… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Illumination in the outer world is to be happy no matter what is going on. In the inner world, it's more ineffable.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind.” — Geoffrey M. Gluckman Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“When observation fails to align with a truth, what do you trust--your senses or your truth? The Greeks didn't even have a… — John Green Copy Share Image
You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Bob] Dylan may, for whatever reasons of his own, do nothing of the sort with the Nobel committee. Up there on Parnassus,… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image