Incommunicable Quotes

25 Incommunicable quotes by 23 unique authors

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
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
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
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
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence — Jean-Paul Sartre
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
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
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
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
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
The burden of the incommunicable. — Thomas de Quincey
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
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
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. — Muhammad Iqbal
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. — Adlai E. Stevenson
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
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
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
Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable... — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of… — Steve Toltz
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very… — Aldous Huxley
I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can… — Franz Kafka
He nearly incommunicable torments of speed, buzzerama, that acrylic high, horrorous, yodelling, repetitious echoes of an infinity so brutally harrowing that words cannot capture the… — Edie Sedgwick

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23 authors contributed a total of 25 Incommunicable Quotes as follows: