This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the… — Margaret Prescott Montague Copy Share Image
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
Suicide is unspeakable, and to speak it is somehow to bring it into a human, imaginable sphere, even if only in the… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We… — James Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
It is necessary to reaffirm our solid opposition to any direct offense against life, especially when innocent and defenseless, and the unborn… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the… — Dagobert D. Runes Copy Share Image
A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things,… — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to… — Elliott Merrick Copy Share Image
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings,… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit,… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who… — Ger Duany Copy Share Image
How can such episodes of such savage cruelty happen? The heart of man is an abyss out of which sometimes emerge plots… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to… — K. Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I have no dog, but it must be Somewhere there's one belongs to me-- A little chap with wagging tail, And dark… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe,… — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
“I should have known that at the root of any mystery that's all you find: people doing unspeakable harm to other people.… — Nick Dybek Copy Share Image
This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?'… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Since peace is alone the gift of God, and as it is He who gives it, why should we be afraid? His… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and… — Fannie Ellsworth Newberry Copy Share Image
“My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image