Best Inexpressible Quotes
75 Inexpressible quotes by 64 unique authors
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Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the…
— Pliny the Elder
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I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their…
— Frederick Franck
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The most profound things are inexpressible.
— Jenny Holzer
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Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The "Supreme Lord" here means Ishvara,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.
— Rumi
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Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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If we Pause and breathe in and out, then we can have the experience of timeless presence, of the inexpressible wisdom and goodness of our…
— Pema Chodron
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Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication…
— Frederic Chopin
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The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they had an edict…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Lord is no respector of persons, and will give success to all who work for it. If l can only impress upon the minds…
— Heber J. Grant
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MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by…
— Henri Bergson
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The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the…
— Frederick Lenz
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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret…
— Hugh Reginald Haweis
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Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation…
— Johann Georg Hamann
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An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.
— Alvin Langdon Coburn
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There is an inimitable grace in Virgil's words, and in them principally consists that beauty which gives so inexpressible a pleasure to him who best…
— John Dryden
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
— Umberto Eco
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One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
— Gustave Flaubert
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
— Aldous Huxley
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
— T.E. Lawrence
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Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.
— Meghan O'Rourke
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Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however…
— George Edward Woodberry
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