Unspeakable Truths Quotes

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can't talk about it. You just bear witness to them.

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

There are things I cannot say.

There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

Language cannot say everything, fortunately.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' from 1895. Chambers's conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad.

Some truths did not bear saying, and some lies were necessary.

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.