Verbal Inadequacy Quotes

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

Words are an imperfect medium for explaining.

Words are useless, especially sentences.

When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

This is why it is sometimes hard for introverts to find words: we really hate to compromise, and words are always a compromise.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

I'm not very good with words, weirdly.

Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

I'm not really good with explaining myself verbally, but I do it through music and other outlets.

Words fail, there are times when even they fail.

But words - words are not enough!

Words fall short sometimes.

I begin indeed to fear that I have undertaken an impossibility, undertaken to tell what I cannot tell because no speech at my command will fit the forms in my mind.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.