Indescribable Quotes - Page 5

• Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Thinking, Two

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• This is an amazing thought: a God who is indescribable.

  Louie Giglio

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• Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!

  Walt Whitman

  Crowds, Arms, Festivals

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.19, NYU Press

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• In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.

  James A. Baldwin

  Animal, Harlem, Invincible

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• The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Energy, Half, Moments

  "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.

  Jonathan Hull

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

  Jordyn Wieber

  Feelings, Gold, Necks

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• The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds. A soul filled with thoughts of sensual desire and hatred is unpurified. If we detect any trace of hatred in our hearts against any man whatsoever for committing any fault, we are utterly estranged from love for God, since love for God absolutely precludes us from hating any man.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Love, Christian, Hate

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• I've visited the future and I've seen the Heavenly City standing upon this Earth!-Beautiful, gorgeous, incomparable, almost indescribable, the most gorgeous sight you'll ever want to see! A beautiful pyramid-shaped City like the ancient Egyptian pyramids, only much more beautiful!-That Golden City like crystal gold, pyramid-shaped, 1500 miles wide! Think of it! And 1500 miles high!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Thinking, Pyramids

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• Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.

  Emily Carr

  Reality, Knowing, Joy

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last reflection of the sun which plunges into the dark blue of the night, going from green tones to a pale turquoise of an unheard-of fineness and a fluid delicacy quite indescribable.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Dark, Night, Reflection

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• Except during my childhood, when I was probably influenced by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel depiction of God with a flowing white beard, I have never tried to project the Creator in any kind of human likeness. The vociferous debates about whether God is male or female seem ridiculous to me. I think of God as an omnipotent and omniscient presence, a spirit that permeates the universe, the essence of truth, nature, being, and life. To me, these are profound and indescribable concepts that seem to be trivialized when expressed in words.

  Jimmy Carter

  God, Thinking, Essence

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.222, Three Rivers Press

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• Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

  Joshua Ferris

  Beautiful, Baseball, Games

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• There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Careers, Virginia

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• The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.

  Meher Baba

  Self, Realization, World

  Meher Baba (1969). “The Secret of Sleep: The Mystery of Man's Relation with God”

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• Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dark, Artist, Light

  "Warrior of Light : The Life of Nicholas Roerich : Artist, Himalayan explorer and visionary". Book by Colleen Messina, 2002.

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• You find in life that there are different levels of being in love with someone, and maybe everyone doesn't find that undeniable, indescribable... I can't describe it, it's indescribable.

  Kristen Stewart

  Being In Love, Different, Levels

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• I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Reading, Writing

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• I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don't remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I'll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It's true. It's completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.

  Kirsten Powers

  Joy, Mind, Doubt

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• My memory bank has overflowed out of control forever. I'm surprised my smile hasn't killed me yet. I have lived an indescribable joyful, adventurous, musical dream life and it just gets better every year.

  Ted Nugent

  Dream, Memories, Years

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• The joy and happiness it gives you or the emotions you go through when you hold your child in your arms for the first time are indescribable! I really thought that there was going be this moment when a ray of light from heaven would come pouring in, background music would start playing with angels singing, but none of that happens!

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Children, Angel, Light

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• How's motherhood? It is absolutely wonderful. Oh, my gosh. It's truly indescribable and amazing.

  Jennie Finch

  Motherhood, Wonderful, Oh My Gosh

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• This feeling to be on the best team of the world is just indescribable.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Team, Feelings, World

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• When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Men, Light

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• Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Heart, Soul, Wish

  "Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature". Book by D.R. Ellison, p.51, 2001.

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