Top 11 Inexpressible Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Inexpressible Quotes from famous people such as Dinah Maria Mulock, T. E. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Shashi Tharoor, David Bowie, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Five decades ago, as India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: ‘After Nehru, who?’ The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: ‘After Nehru, what?’
Shashi Tharoor
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie
One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert
I think poetry is as old as language, and both come out of the same thing – an effort to try to express something that is inexpressible.
W. S. Merwin
The most profound things are inexpressible.
Jenny Holzer
For me, music is about expressing the inexpressible, and as I get older, man, what I feel the need to express becomes less and less poignant to others.
Devin Townsend
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, – the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
Johann Georg Hamann
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
Charles Munch