That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“For Valéry, the nature of beauty is that it cannot be defined; beauty is precisely “the ineffable.” — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable. — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind.” — Geoffrey M. Gluckman Copy Share Image
“But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.] — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. — David Mitchell 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
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives… — Anonymous 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
If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in… — Aleister Crowley 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
Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
“...imagine that you hold in one hand an oddly shaped stone. You keep this hand closed into a fist, but still you… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
O man, do you believe that Christ is God? If you believe, fear, and keep His commandments? there is no other God… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Idiot. Above her head was the only stable point in the cosmos, the only refuge from the damnation of the panta rei,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Lovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals. — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
The rapturuous, wild, and ineffable pleasure of drinking at somebody else's expense — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image