Unspeakable Quotes

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

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.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

The unspeakable visions of the individual.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say that I am proud of myself, so I find that I cannot 'talk about it'.

Unspeakable feelings need to find expression in words. However... verbalization of very intense feelings may be a difficult task.

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.

There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words, when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.

The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief.