Beyond Words Quotes

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I want to start where language ends.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.

For some moments in life there are no words.

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

The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.

Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth--penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.

When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

I listen to music a great deal. In a way, it's trying to express things that can't be expressed in words. That's something that interests me, too. Even though I use words to express myself, I am trying to, it seems to me, get beyond that.

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

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

There are all sorts of experiences we can't really put a name to...The birth of a child, for one. Or the death of a parent. Falling in love. Words are like nets--we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, grief, or wonder. Finding God is like that, too. If it's happened to you, you know what it feels like. But try to describe it to someone else--and language only takes you so far.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.