Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

This sight was terrible, more terrible than words convey, for words are cowards as men are, and hide things as men do.

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

It is utterly impossible for us, as finite beings, with the utmost stretch of the imagination, to conceive the depth and immensity of the horrors of slavery.

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. There was nothing within hearing, and nothing in sight save a vast reach of black slime; yet the very completeness of the stillness and the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with a nauseating fear.

It's beyond words," indeed. "There's no such thing.

There is no magic in words.

There is no magic in words.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy’s report, so damningly as words.

The world is not our imagination but our nightmare, full of inconceivable surprises.

The condition of human beings, reduced to the extremest states of degradation and misery, cannot be exhibited in softened language, or adorn a polished page.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

There are worse prisons than words.