Unnameable Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
— Leonard Bernstein
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The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class, accuse the class…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to…
— Laozi
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It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label…
— Stephen Levine
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Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable.
— Francis Ponge
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I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to…
— Salman Rushdie
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Man Made 'God' in his own image. The eternal, the infinate, the unnameable was reduced to a mental idol that you had to believe in…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page…
— H P Lovecraft
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He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart beating through his…
— Kiera Cass
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my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic…
— William Styron
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man.
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Unnameable Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Unnameable Quotes as follows: