Unspeakable Quotes

156 Unspeakable quotes by 145 unique authors

We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The… — Anne Lamott
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held… — Rainer Maria Rilke
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing. ... That in her creation of her children there should be the… — Louise Erdrich
The unspeakable visions of the individual. — Jack Kerouac
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives. — Frank Herbert
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren’t exactly… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can… — Cormac McCarthy
Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was caused by my… — Jeaniene Frost
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to… — Joyce Carol Oates
There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such… — Theodore Sturgeon
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday… — Emile M. Cioran
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their… — Jonathan Edwards
The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to… — Tom Stoppard
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of… — Cormac McCarthy
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. — E. M. Forster
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever… — Adrienne Rich
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal… — Roberto Bolano
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced… — Dorothy L. Sayers
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this… — Malcolm X
The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before… — Iain Banks
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
It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has… — Hunter S. Thompson
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. — Terence McKenna

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