Top 100 The Unsaid Quotes
#2. I hold you in my mouth, in the words that contain you, in the unsaid and the haunts, in all the forms your name.
Gwen Calvo
#4. why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#6. A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.
Charles Baxter
#7. The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'
Matthew McConaughey
#8. There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it.
Ally Carter
#9. The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.
Semir Zeki
#10. They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem.
Gary Snyder
#12. The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no craft to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.
Maya Angelou
#13. The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
Adora Svitak
#14. Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years.
Vikrmn
#15. The sanction made the unsaid even more palpable, as if the thoughts had been waiting outside the room, and had at last been given permission to enter; now there was no denying their presence.
Neel Mukherjee
#17. Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.
Sam Hamill
#20. They both knew the vitality of the unsaid, whose invisible spirits danced around them now.
Ian McEwan
#21. The worst part about losing someone you love - besides the agony of never getting to see them again - are the things you never said. The unsaid stalks you, mocks you for thinking you had all the time in the world. None of us do.
Karen Marie Moning
#22. I really did love you." Leaving out the unsaid word, once.
"Me, too." Once.
Katie McGarry
#23. She lives between the Vale of Kashmir & nirvana, beneath a bipolar sky. The voice speaks of an atlas & a mask, a map of Punjab, an ugly scar from college days on her abdomen, the unsaid credo, but I still can't make the voice say, Look, I'm sorry. I've been dead for a long time.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#24. So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.
Brad Meltzer
#25. Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.
Taylor Swift
#26. And once again, only the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#27. She made her voice as firm as possible. "Don't let them catch you."
He hesitated, clearly surprised by her words. Then he smiled again, inclining his head in a shallow bow, acknowledging everything she'd left unsaid. "Traveling with you was a delight worth any delay, but I can delay no longer.
Holly Black
#28. Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.
K.J. Kilton
#29. It was the same mantra she had silently chanted before on other festive occasions. 'May you be happy'--her mother had wanted to be happy, hadn't she? Didn't everyone?" Things Unsaid, from Chapter, "Birthday Celebration
Diana Y. Paul
#30. Beneath her curls, I forget the world,
With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold.
Love is as much in her heart as in mine,
But she doesn't say it, her punishment so divine.
Faraaz Kazi
#31. Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#32. There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.
Lisa Gardner
#33. A plan is a thing that goes unsaid, but puts the hope in your voice nonetheless.
David Levithan
#34. Two versions of the same face looking into blank screens, two very different minds thinking of things unsaid. Sometimes love is in silence.
Roger Zelazny
#35. One of the most familiar tricks of the orator or propagandist is to leave certain things unsaid, things that are highly relevant to the argument, but that might be challenged if they were made explicit. While
Mortimer J. Adler
#36. I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.
Emily Murdoch
#37. She only regretted the time wasted, what was left unsaid. Undone. That if she'd learned something from what had happened, it was that you needed to live life to the fullest. Every day. Balls to the wall. Afraid of nothing. Much less of possible pain to come. Giving yourself unconditionally.
Elle Aycart
#38. Gossip is the are of saying nothing in a way that leave practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
#39. Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.
Mark Lawrence
#40. Truth, she believed, lies in what is said as much as in what isn't, in the same way that a melody not only is a sequence of audible notes but encompasses the spaces and pauses in between. When listening to music, you must learns to take in even the atmosphere of an echo.
Vaddey Ratner
#41. Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God, just as her most significant message is what she says about Him or leaves unsaid, for her silence is often more eloquent than her speech.
A.W. Tozer
#42. The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
Henry David Thoreau
#43. In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
Cesare Pavese
#44. The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#45. The love was so passionate. Neither were happy with anyone else. But when a time came that they were able to be together, too much had been left unsaid. Too much time had passed and too much hurt filled their hearts.
Paula Heller Garland
#46. Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.
Ann Rinaldi
#47. Just don't leave anything unsaid to the people who matter. It only takes a few words to change your world.
James Hannah
#48. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
Benjamin Franklin
#49. This is a story about survival.
Letting go and learning to let in.
Getting along and moving on.
The truth about life.
The things left unsaid ...
Nadege Richards
#50. The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you--whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.
Celeste Ng
#51. In the end, it doesn't matter what words are said or unsaid ... Life's mistakes are made whether you can see them or not. What counts is how we learn to live with them.
Gail Tsukiyama
#52. All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
Anna Quindlen
#53. It was better to leave the space empty of words than to choose the wrong ones.
Robin Hobb
#54. It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
Frederick Buechner
#55. Even his voice had accrued a certain rancour as though the detritus of words long left unsaid inside the cave of his mouth had become rusty and scattered in tiny bits on the top of his tongue whenever he opened his mouth to speak.
Chigozie Obioma
#56. When you feel that a relationship is not same as it was and it is lacking the old charm, love, and magic - give it some space.
We often complicate things by wondering how to fix it. At times, just some space and unsaid love can heal even those wounds that are deeply engraved.
Nikita Dudani
#57. The sour smell was not the smell of fungus. It was unlit incense, and cold ashes, and unsaid prayers. I
Mary Stewart
#58. We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.
Diane De Poitiers
#59. Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.
Langston Hughes
#60. The tides rolled up to crash against the shore while we sat feet from one another with the remnants of all we'd left unsaid driving us apart.
Katherine McIntyre
#61. But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
Alexander McCall Smith
#62. Only the Small Things are ever said. The Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#63. I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.
Nate Parker
#64. The air between them filled with all that remained unsaid. All that should be said.
Yet wasn't.
Renee Ahdieh
#65. The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.
Taylor Swift
#66. Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever!
Preeth Nambiar
#67. What would you have me do? A knight doesn't look for a princess among the garbage."
"My Sam had no use for me when he first met me."
That Maddie couldn't believe. "You are Sam's princess in the tower."
"I was Sam's pain in the - " Bella smiled and tapped her behind, leaving the word unsaid.
Sarah McCarty
#68. Eva was a between-the-lines talker. She left the sayable unsaid and said what she meant without saying it.
Robert Wilson
#69. There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid.
Lauren Aquilina
#70. Never waste an unsaid word of praise and never praise the said words of anger.
Terry Blakeman
#71. Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.
Andrea Camilleri
#72. Some words were left unsaid Oh Layla, as you slept peacefully in my arms, and the stars kept on peeping into the room to glance at your smile!
Avijeet Das
#73. She knew the gist of what he was leaving unsaid. All he wanted was to fuck her brains out.
Pepper Winters
#74. She knew very well that people fell out, even stormily, and then made up. But she did not know how to start - she simply did not have the trick of it, the row that cleared the air, and could never quite believe that hard words could be unsaid or forgotten.
Ian McEwan
#75. you soon find out how loud the silence really is. everything unsaid leads eventually to what is said.
Colum McCann
#76. And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.
Arundhati Roy
#77. The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
#78. Don't leave it all unsaid,
somewhere in the wasteland of your head.
Morrissey
#79. The kindest word in the world is the unkind word left unsaid.
Ashwin Sanghi
#80. Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
Walter Winchell
#81. I was sixteen and just waking up to the peculiar rules of love - how what's left unsaid between two people can be a far more complicated language than what's written on the page.
Tiffany Baker
#82. Was slipping, and his face had gone as white as my own. He looked down again, avoiding my stricken gaze. "I suppose all I was wondering," he murmured, "was ... was he ... was he different from me?" I saw him bite his lip as though wishing the words unsaid, but it was far too late
Diana Gabaldon
#83. It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?
Isabel Lopez
#84. Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
Maximillian Degenerez
#85. I think about how much of a good story seems to happen elsewhere, off the canvas or screen or page, in Europe or a backwater New Brunswick town, in what is left unsaid. A word on the tip of the tongue, ungraspable. The teasing smush of a feather boa over naked breasts in a striptease.
Lisa Moore
#86. Aware of how tenuous life can be. How too many things go unsaid or undone. How we wait too long and miss the chance." "Miss
Suanne Laqueur
#87. I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment
Jane Austen
#88. So much between us went unsaid; that is the danger, and beauty, of life without the cure. There is always wilderness and tangle, and the path is never clear.
Lauren Oliver
#89. Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Homer
#90. It seems an age ago, since you have left me, time has filled me, with words unsaid;
as the sadness seeps into me slowly, and I am left to face the night ahead.
Lang Leav
#91. You're doing that crazy mastermind thing again," Cuff said.
"Which crazy mastermind thing?"
"Where you talk to the other masterminds and one of you leaves something unsaid, and the other knows what that thing is without asking
Wildbow
#92. What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.
Thomas Leonard
#93. People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
Thom Yorke
#94. She was like the dust that clung to his shirt. She was in the silences that had become so frequent at the house, silences that welled up between their words, sometimes cold and hollow, sometimes pregnant with things that went unsaid, like a cloud filled with rain that never fell.
Khaled Hosseini
#95. [ ... ]No book can be really complete in this life; it has to end where the author's time and understanding end. There is always something left unsaid. I look forward to the life to come as the unending last chapter of all the good books I have ever read.
Kathryn Lindskoog
#96. The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.
Tyler Knight
#97. But we always avoided talking about these things - difficult things - and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.
Catherine Lacey
#98. Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan
#99. There are some things I must try to say before the still watches come again in which the things unsaid hurt so and cry out in the heart to be uttered.
Erik Larson
#100. What the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being dead: the communication
Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot
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