Top 223 Unspeakable Quotes & Sayings

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

The third always speaks the unspeakable words.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder.

A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, for to be born here is an unspeakable feast, a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body.

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.

This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

They don't find peace. It's pure bullshit. When something unspeakable happens, or when you do something unspeakable, it changes you. It takes you apart and reassembles you. You are a Frankenstein of circumstance, and the parts never fit back quite right and the life you live is a stolen one. You don't deserve to walk among the living, and you know it.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.

A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit.

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

In fiction, the actions of a villain, even when unspeakable, can be cathartic to read about. They let us experience darkness, but add a safe remove.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.

My wish is to be a catalyst, to push for solutions, to broker peace talks, to ensure accountability, especially for those who committed and are still organizing unspeakable crimes.

The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

The unspeakable visions of the individual.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets.

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

When the darkness of dismay comes, endure until it is over, because out of it will come that following of Jesus which is an unspeakable joy.