Beyond Language Quotes

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought. The second best are misunderstood because they are the thoughts that are supposed to refer to that which cannot be thought about. The third best are what we talk about.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

The important thing is not to know who "I" is or what "I" is. You'll never succeed. There are no words for it. The important thing is to drop the labels.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

I love that moment in writing when language falls short. There is something more there. A larger body. Even by the failure of words I begin to detect its dimensions. As I work the prose, shift the verbs, look for new adjectives, a different rhythm, syntax, something new begins to come to the surface.

Teach me to go to the country beyond words and beyond names.

I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.

It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.

There are things you can describe in life and things you just can’t. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell about… well, then there’s hope and joy and love – and those are beyond the power of words to describe.

The highest truth cannot be put into words.