Eliot Schrefer

Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits.

American Author

Lucy Larcom

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

American Poet

Ben Marcus

In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.

Sri Aurobindo

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

Indian Philosopher

Hannah Kent

I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

Australian Writer

Anita Brookner

People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they are flippant, complacent, ineffable, but never serious, which is sometimes maddening.

English Historian

Maggie Rowe

My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.

American Comedian

Jimmy Chin

As a professional climber, that's the question you always get: Why, why, why? It's an ineffable thing; you can't describe it.

American Athlete

Elbert Hubbard

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

American Writer

James Lapine

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

American Director

Use 'ineffable' when something moves you deeply and words fall short.

Profound Impact

'Ineffable' often ties to beauty or awe—things that overwhelm us positively.

Positive Beauty

Use in moments of gravity when feelings or experiences are beyond words.

Gravitational Moments

Use 'ineffable' for subjects taboo or culturally sensitive to discuss.

Unspoken Reality

Suitable for concepts heavy with secret or mystical connotations.

Mystical Secrecy

Implies something might be tragically or morally unspeakable.

Connotative Weight

 but still not understand what it feels like to be that person. These ineffable experiences have properties called qualia, subjective qualities that you can't accurately describe or measure. Qualia are unique to the person experiencing them, like having an itch, being in love,

Mary's Room: A...

 And so the more complex, sublime, beautiful, and ineffable an experience, the more I want to try and make a piece of content about what that is. It's me in a way having a creative battle against ineffability. It's like the universe is saying you cannot explain me.

Jason Silva's Origin...

 You know, you aspire for beauty, for sensuousness, for atmosphere, the emotional response. That's the realm of the ineffable and the immeasurable.