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Unspeakable Joy is known only by those who only speak from the Heart. -- Tom Hackett
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity. -- Aleister Crowley
I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why do you have to change? Why don't you just accept that this is how you are? Why do you have to grow from an experience? -- Meghan Daum
Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable. -- Leonard Baskin
Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. -- Richard Wagner
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. -- J. William Fulbright
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. -- Ira Gershwin
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. -- Victor Hugo
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking. -- Robert Anton Wilson
If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. -- Nelson Mandela
When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils. -- Monica Crowley
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. -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
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. -- Ida B. Wells
Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden. -- Sam Kinison
Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. -- Luigi Pirandello
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. -- George Eliot
Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other. -- Naomi Benaron
The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness. -- Mitt Romney
At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son. -- Lewis B. Smedes
Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon! -- Charles Spurgeon
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. -- Edith Stein
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -- Washington Irving
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on. -- Noam Chomsky
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! -- Luigi Pirandello
We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying! -- Josh Hutcherson
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social solecism, tantamount to an impertinent invasion of privacy. -- Will Self
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it. -- Geraldine Brooks
Look at the world of both film and indie games, and you'll find a startling similarity between the two when it comes to creating the perfect horror story. The tricks storytellers pull to make your blood run cold never change; a creaking floorboard, the eerie feeling of being watched, wandering into a world filled with unspeakable terror. -- Rob Manuel
What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The unspeakable visions of the individual. -- Jack Kerouac
Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible. -- Oscar Wilde
Explanation of the unspeakable cannot be finished. -- Gautama Buddha
The third always speaks the unspeakable words. -- Tupac Shakur
Art is a mediator of the unspeakable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives. -- Frank Herbert
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. -- E. M. Forster
Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth. -- Gore Vidal
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable. -- Paul Keating
The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A born-again person ought to possess unspeakable peace in the spirit. -- Watchman Nee
There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun -- Dan Savage
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable. -- Terence McKenna
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. -- Thomas Merton
A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. -- William Shakespeare
The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence -- Jane Bennett
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. -- Ellen Goodman
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me. -- Terry Tempest Williams
There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness. -- Stuart Briscoe
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets. -- Chris Ware
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There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege. -- Chris Hedges
The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable. -- Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are the ignorant fools of the world, for they know not the unspeakable horrors that await us all. -- Dorkly
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. -- John Owen
There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable. -- Toba Beta
Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us? -- Thomas S. Monson
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. -- Salman Rushdie
I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable. -- Joshua Oppenheimer
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity. ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. -- Thomas Aquinas
God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ. -- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable. -- Laini Taylor
And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth? -- W. D. Snodgrass
There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. -- J. I. Packer
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The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power. -- S. D Gordon
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns. -- Kevin Hart
Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence. -- John of Kronstadt
There are so many unspeakable tragedies - around the globe - everyday. I just hope that we, as humans, don't lose our compassion for others. -- Brenda Priddy
O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart. -- Frederick William Faber
I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining men, believe this and commit the most unspeakable crimes. -- Isaiah Berlin
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. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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. -- Oswald Chambers
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. -- Cassandra Clare
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. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end. -- Joseph Addison
Ever since Mike Tyson was champ, twenty-something dudes have microwaved nachos, popped opened Natty Lights, watched sharks do unspeakable things on TV, and whispered a billion 'Whoa, dudes.' -- Stephen Rodrick
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. -- Ger Duany
To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it. -- D. James Kennedy
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. -- Hannah Whitall Smith
The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness... even if it's just for an instant. -- Beryl Bender Birch
This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God. -- Anne Rice
It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest. -- Walter Raleigh
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness -- Glenn Close
Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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. -- Judith Lewis Herman
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future. -- Helen Keller
... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing. -- Fannie Ellsworth Newberry
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress. -- Benjamin Disraeli
This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of existence, and still remained standing-but just barely. -- Clare Vanderpool
Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren't exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable. -- Amy Tan
I thought, how magical, the first glimspe of snow. By March I would be sick of it, but here in this November instant those tiny flakes swirled with the unspeakable purity of a divine gift. -- Beatriz Williams
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye. -- Margaret Atwood
Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence. -- Linda Chavez

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