Ineffable Quotes

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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the… — Pat Conroy
Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce,… — Liane Moriarty
What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire,… — Charles Baudelaire
When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not… — Victor Hugo
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking… — John Galsworthy
I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work… — Pierre Bourdieu
As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I donâ€™t know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived… — Fernando Pessoa
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and… — Rabindranath Tagore
He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not.… — Albert Schweitzer
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable… — Rumi
Never f*!k with the ineffable. — Terry Pratchett
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege… — Charles Baudelaire
A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you… — Aleister Crowley
People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent,… — Anita Brookner
The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it,… — Arthur Rimbaud
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence,… — James Grover Thurber
Although I know that there is ultimately greater glory in suffering than in joy, it is joy that sustains us. It is in the glorious… — John Lars Zwerenz
Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet… — Georges Simenon
Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way.… — I Ching

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