Inexpressible Thoughts Quotes

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

When you look into the faces of these quiet creatures who don't know how to tell stories--who are mute, who can't make themselves heard, who fade into the woodwork, who only think of the perfect answer after the fact, after they're back at home, who can never think of a story that anyone else will find interesting--is there not more depth and more meaning in them? You can see every letter of every untold story swimming on their faces, and all the signs of silence, dejection, and even defeat. You can even imagine your own face in those faces, can't you?

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

I can't put into words what I think about anything.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking--how in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe--Pasquale Tursi said, only, "Yes.

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.