“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”
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American writer 1946–2018Related quotes

Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. 3

Recreation (1919)
Context: Of all the joys of life which may fairly come under the head of recreation there is nothing more great, more refreshing, more beneficial in the widest sense of the word, than a real love of the beauty of the world... to those who have some feeling that the natural world has beauty in it I would say, Cultivate this feeling and encourage it in every way you can. Consider the seasons, the joy of the spring, the splendour of the summer, the sunset colours of the autumn, the delicate and graceful bareness of winter trees, the beauty of snow, the beauty of light upon water, what the old Greek called the unnumbered smiling of the sea.

On the Nature of Acquaintance: Neutral Monism (1914)
1910s

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: [Wiener, N., A New Theory of Measurement: A Study in the Logic of Mathematics, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, s2-19, 1, 1921, 181–205, 0024-6115, 10.1112/plms/s2-19.1.181]
“There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.”
Source: Married By Morning

“You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking”
The Organized Mind (2014)
Context: You’d think people would realize they’re bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.