Unsayable Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions. — Italo Calvino
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. — Salman Rushdie
World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters. — Rumi
Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind. — Gwen Harwood
To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut. — Max Beckmann
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one… — Jonathan Sacks
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no… — Rainer Maria Rilke
One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they… — John O'Donohue
It takes a child to say the unsayable. — Nick Hornby
Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us.… — Marie Howe
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy… — Chuck Palahniuk

Who Wrote These Unsayable Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 13 Unsayable Quotes as follows: