Quotes for All
If menopause is the silent passage, ‘male menopause’ is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman’s life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man. Gail Sheehy
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? Emile M. Cioran
It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. … I used to cry, and want to cry, but what do tears do? I was so proud when first I began to conquer. … Your cheeks feel white just the same, but inside, not outside. Nobody … Read more
Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today. Ellen Goodman
Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort. E. M. Forster
Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will … Read more
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
To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, \”You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you’ve done, and though we may … Read more