Quotes about Ineffable

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

Truth could never be wholly contained in words.

I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

That which we cannot speak about, we must pass over in silence."

it can only be conceived as a shuttling back and forth within the bounds of finitude, while genuine unity withdraws beyond the circle of creation into the realm of the inconceivable. So "every created thing has the divine and ineffable monad, which is God himself, as its origin and its end, because it comes forth from him and ultimately returns to him".

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.

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

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.

It is not easy to express the inexpressible