Thought provoking
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
Inadequacy of expression is merely a minor part of the great tragedy of humanity. Only an ass thinks that he has succeeded in uttering the perfect content of his thought without either excess or defect."
Arthur Machen • The Secret Glory
It is true I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.
Barbara Kingsolver • The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
“And sometimes I have kept
my feelings to myself because
I could find no language to describe them in.”
-Jane Austen
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw