Words Fail Quotes

“We sing because we can't speak anymore.”
― Kristen Chenoweth

“After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We are in the very beginning stages of what might take years or even decades of transition. The human race is developing a Universal Language. The practices that will assist humanity—and assist you—in reaching this higher communication will include all the things I'll share with you: vocal exploration, meditation, and energetic practices such as chi gong and yoga. Through these techniques, you are going to completely overhaul your nervous system and your energetic makeup to allow the emergence of this language within you.”
― Dielle Ciesco, The Unknown Mother: A Magical Walk with the Goddess of Sound

“For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“This is one of those stories where the feeling of the moment stands in for visual details.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

“Whether we cannot see God because the secular age has malformed our imaginations or because it has made us so busy that we cannot see God, when we try to talk about the experience of seeing God, language fails.”
― Andrew Root, Blair D. Bertrand