Definition of Inexpressible

Inexpressible

Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure.

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Inexpressible Quotations

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
T. E. Lawrence

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
David Bowie

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.
Johann G. Hamann

The most profound things are inexpressible.
Jenny Holzer

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.
Charles Munch

Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are.
Dinah Maria Mulock

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Inexpressible Translations

inexpressible in Hungarian is kifejezhetetlen
inexpressible in Norwegian is uutsigelig, ubeskrivelig
inexpressible in Spanish is inexpresable

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