Unspeakable Quotes
156 Unspeakable quotes by 145 unique authors
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Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the God of yesterday,…
— Matt Redman
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Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold…
— Vincent Canby
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If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The…
— Donald Harington
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There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became…
— Richard von Weizsaecker
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The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's…
— Mechthild of Magdeburg
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Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize…
— Unknown Author
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins,…
— Brené Brown
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This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to…
— Kofi Annan
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What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is…
— Ayn Rand
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This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
— Henry David Thoreau
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
— Salman Rushdie
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God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.
— Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore…
— James Kavanaugh
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Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?
— Thomas S. Monson
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Once out of all the gray days of my life I have looked into the heart of reality; I have witnessed the truth; I have…
— Margaret Prescott Montague
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The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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TURN ON. to contact the ancient energies and wisdoms that are built into your nervous system. They provide unspeakable pleasure and revelation. TUNE IN. to…
— Timothy Leary
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Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors…
— Maryrose Wood
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They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and…
— Lisa Unger
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Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
— Aleister Crowley
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God works this unspeakable mystery of entire sanctification in your life and mine. People try to seek the experience of entire sanctification in ways other…
— Oswald Chambers
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Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.
— Thomas Merton
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Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously…
— Neale Donald Walsch
Who Wrote These Unspeakable Quotes
145 authors contributed a total of 156 Unspeakable Quotes, led by these top contributors: