"The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.Atrociti..."
- Judith Lewis Herman
"My family says they are proud of me. Of course, I would rather hear this than the contrary, but I cannot say that I am proud of myself, so I find that I cannot 'talk about it'."
- Jake Wood
"The study of psychological trauma has repeatedly led into realms of the unthinkable and foundered on fundamental questions of belief."
"There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years."
- Toba Beta
"On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of..."
- Frank X. Barron
"I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an abs..."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"I have tried to communicate my ideas in a language that preserves connections, a language that is faithful both to the dispassionate, reasoned traditions of my profession and to the passionate claims ..."
"This book appears at a time when public discussion of the common atrocities of sexual and domestic life has been made possible by the women’s movement, and when public discussion of the common atrocit..."
"And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets."
- Joseph Conrad
"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."