Words Fail Quotes

This is one of those stories where the feeling of the moment stands in for visual details.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We are in the very beginning stages of what might take years or even decades of transition. The human race is developing a Universal Language. The practices that will assist humanity—and assist you—in reaching this higher communication will include all the things I'll share with you: vocal exploration, meditation, and energetic practices such as chi gong and yoga. Through these techniques, you are going to completely overhaul your nervous system and your energetic makeup to allow the emergence of this language within you.

For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.

Rainer Maria Rilke