Quotes About Unspoken

As they passed, Duke nodded, and John Matthew, as he was called, did the same—and that was the extent of it. No one had ever heard the SOB say a word, but by the same token, anyone built like that didn't have to talk.

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

But maybe when you never say a thing, your thoughts spread like mould.

Neither of us says anything. Why would we? There is nothing to say.

Speech happens to not be his language.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

I've always been genuinely interested in the spirit world. I've seen things I will never talk about because I'd be a fool to. You can't lay out that world in words.

Every tounge bit had another word to say.

Mum's the word.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

Sometimes it's the things that aren't said that kill you.

Sometimes it's the things that aren't said that kill you" -Josh

When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

gone. I figured you had some kind of secret. I

If anyone asked either of us, we would say that we have a beautiful, happy family, and in so, so many regards we would be telling the truth. But it's what isn't on the page—what resides in the white spaces between words—that tells our story of things lost.

Tout ce qui n'a pas été dit ni fait le jour erre la nuit dans notre poitrine.

I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the direction she would have gone walking would always be empty. Her absence extended in lines of numbers made of smoke, backward in memory and forward in futures never to occur.

Tears are words the heart cannot express.

An awkward silence descended between us. Where did that phrase come from? I wonder. Silence descended . Descended from where exactly? Was it hovering over us like the alien spaceship in Independence Day ? Maybe it wasn't really silence so much as it was the smothering weight of something unsaid, words we'd kept at bay, kept in the air, by talking about other things.

Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception.

Every society is really governed by hidden laws, by unspoken but profound assumptions on the part of the people, and ours is no exception. It is up to the American writer to find out what these laws and assumptions are. In a society much given to smashing taboos without thereby managing to be liberated from them, it will be no easy matter.

When two people have so much to say to each other that there's almost nothing they can say, and they just stare at each other. But that's saying something, too.

When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the action unfold without spoken words.