Incommunicable Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined,…
— Andre Breton
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You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.
— George Santayana
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something…
— Edith Hamilton
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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are…
— Vikram Seth
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I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions…
— Reynolds Price
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It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling…
— Northrop Frye
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The burden of the incommunicable.
— Thomas de Quincey
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Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
— John Jay Chapman
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There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity.…
— John Zachary Young
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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it…
— Jack London
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Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
— Willa Cather
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It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the…
— Jack London
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Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable...
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every…
— Aldous Huxley
Who Wrote These Incommunicable Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Incommunicable Quotes as follows: