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Quotes About Unspoken

dictionary with unsaid words
~ Milan Kundera
Silence lay between them like an agony.
~ Milan Kundera
o essencial no romance é aquilo que não pode ser dito senão por um romance, em toda adaptação só fica o que não é essencial
~ Milan Kundera
It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
~ Chad Harbach
Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
It's as if our bodies know the secret that we don't wish to admit yet.
~ Nicky Fox, My Pin-up Girl
Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.
~ Bram Stoker
I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
~ Bram Stoker
But there are so many unspoken rules for navigating high school - for navigating life, maybe - that I can't help but try to figure out which one I broke to get myself into this situation.... There are so many rules for girls.
~ Candace Bushnell
Yasmin loved the little woman with her seamed glowing face, tiny mahogany hands ghosted with flour, white hair like a veil, tied up; loved her in that way women never get to love their own mothers because there is not enough unsaid, and too much said, between them.
~ Terry Bisson
Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The Rule Unspoken, the Rule Unwritten, The rule from the beginning of time.
~ Terry Goodkind
Roland Barthes says, "That which cannot be named is a disturbance.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
MARY: Catherine! Is it necessary to include such a detail? CATHERINE: Do you expect our readers to believe that we had no bodily needs or functions for entire days at a time? MARY: No, but such things are simply—unstated. They go without saying. CATHERINE: It's very fashionable now to include realistic details, no matter how unpleasant or improper. Look at the French writers. Look at Émile Zola. MARY: We are not French.
~ Theodora Goss
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
You were something to see, he didn't say. You were something to feel, I didn't reply.
~ Karen Marie Moning
We didn't talk about Eric Mutis, but the effort of not talking about him made our actual words feel like fizz, just a lot of speedy emptiness.
~ Karen Russell
All she keeps inside isn't on the label.
~ Fuel
A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop
~ Fumiko Enchi
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
His heart is too full, and no words to release it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
past, nearly sideswiping them. "But if you'd been brave and come to me, I would have adopted her, Daniel. I would have forgiven you and I would have taken her in. I waited for you to say something, but you never did. I waited for days, then weeks, then years." "Ismay, you can believe what you want, but Marian Wallace
~ Gabrielle Zevin
And...what hurt can an unsaid word do? Can it be like an antibiotic withheld?
~ Gail Giles
So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.
~ Garth Stein
So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is comprised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.
~ Garth Stein