Unspeakable Quotes

156 Unspeakable quotes by 145 unique authors

If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental… — Gail Sheehy
...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to come, which no… — Gregory Palamas
Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth. — Gore Vidal
With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With… — Dara Wier
An unspeakable tragedy, confirmed to us by ABC News in New York City: John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of… — Howard Cosell
The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power. — S. D Gordon
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent… — Glenn Close
Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful… — Saint Francis de Sales
All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time,… — Victor Hugo
And then, the unspeakable purity - and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just… — Anne Bronte
This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful… — Clare Vanderpool
The least known among the virtues and also the most misunderstood is the virtue of humility. Yet, it is the very groundwork of Christianity. Humility… — William Bernard Ullathorne
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable. — Joseph O'Neill
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of… — Vance Havner
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of… — Linda Chavez
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. — Leonard Baskin
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly… — Brian D. McLaren
Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible. — Oscar Wilde
Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between… — Frederick Buechner
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done. But still one… — Vincent Van Gogh
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. — Thomas Aquinas
How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is… — Harold B. Lee
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism -… — George Eliot

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