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.
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.
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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?’
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.
One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
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.
The most profound things are inexpressible.
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.
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.
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.
