Inexpressible Quotes

“Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I am sorry that our friendship, or whatever name one may give to the obsessive relationship which has bound us together for so many years, should end in this way. This is not the place to utter its elegy.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.”
― Munia Khan

“I will not attempt to describe how I got through the next few days. There are desolations of the spirit which can only be hinted at. I sat there huge-eyed in the wreck of myself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“In a way, people like her, who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind - that such a Person is not him or herself, but an eye that's constantly watching, and whatever it sees it changes into sentences; in the process it strips reality of its most essential quality - its inexpressibility.”
― Olga Tokarczuk

“Only art explains, and that cannot itself be explained.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“New inadequate gestures of suffering Chimeric thing”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems