Unshed Quotes

#1. Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. I wrote this about you, about our love, our story. And I feel so damn lucky that others in this world, strangers in other parts, can steal a piece of what we have and feel so lucky too.

Crystal Woods

#3. The wounds I carry, she carries them too. The unshed tears in my head flow through her heart too .

Ma-Roo

#4. I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.

Martha M. Moravec

#5. Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.

Susanna Tamaro

#6. She had no doubt in her mind what he was going to do. And while her ever-elusive shred of common sense squealed, "no," every thing else in her shouted, "Bring it on.

Marissa Clarke

#7. God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools ... and He has not been disappointed.

Antonin Scalia

#8. Good people do bad things," I tell her. "All the time. It's called being human.

Karina Halle

#9. Her eyes glimmered with unshed tears. "There is so much I want to say to you, but I know if I get started I'll start bawling, and I'm saving my tears for the pillow." I laughed. "You've been watching Dance Moms." "Possibly.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. Small, forthright words, used in the service of condensing experience, might have an idea buried in them as large as the most expansive work that wears its intellectualism on its sleeve. The unshed tears of the deeply felt are akin to the unused large words in the service of a thought.

Sarah Ruhl

#11. Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.

Eric Kripke

#12. We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

Pierre Omidyar

#13. Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears.
"It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed.

Meg Cabot

#14. Then he closed his eyes and began to dream.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die though, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa

Robert W. Chambers

#16. We were very happy; and that evening, as the last of its race, and destined evermore to close that volume of my life, will never pass out of my memory.

Charles Dickens

#17. By the time I found sleep that night, back in the Hawk's Keep, my throat was tight with too many tears unshed, screams unuttered and prayers whose words I could never seem to find.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#18. With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

Winston Churchill

#19. Ultimately our claim to know the one God only gains credence in the contemporary world as he demonstrates the divine presence through the way we live- through our lives as we connect our Christian belief with true Christian living.

Stanley J. Grenz

#20. My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

Sophie Kinsella

#21. There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

Mark Twain

#22. Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#23. Did anyone care for poor Cinderella until her fairy godmother took her in hand? Did anyone look beyond the ragged clothes and sooty face? Did anyone see the unshed tears and the poor, tired face?
Obviously not. Appearances matter.

Gita V. Reddy

#24. His voice was cracking and hoarse with fear. Unshed tears shimmered in his eyes.

Kelly Moran

#25. Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

Lysa TerKeurst

#26. But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.

Margaret Atwood

#27. Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

Jacqueline Carey

#28. The reflected world is the conquest of calm

Gaston Bachelard

#29. I'm going to lie down. Please wake me up in a couple of don't.

Ruby Elliot