Quotes About Unspoken

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.

As an American married to an Englishman and living in France, I've spent much of my adult life trying to decode the rules of conversation in three countries. Paradoxically, these rules are almost always unspoken.

The unspoken thing, the elephant in the room, is the war against terrorism, it's tainting everything.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.

What were the unspoken rules your family followed? How did you handle conflict? What was the typical method for solving problems? Were there regular patterns of forgiveness?

Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.

She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.

And I almost said I love you. Instead I said nothing and you said nothing.

He told her then how sorry he was for last night, but not out loud.

but we didn't speak of what was bothering us the most. Maybe we didn't need to. It couldn't have been "talked out." It had to be worn out.

Adoro los silencios incómodos, ¿usted no, doctor? Todo lo que implican. Llenan el vacío con la fuerza de las palabras no dichas. Porque lo que no se dice a veces es más inquietante.

There were plenty of things I was actually glad I had left unsaid. Still, the comment haunted me. It haunts me today. All the things I wish I had said when I had the chance. A moment recurs. We were

The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge.

For fear was the great unspoken protagonist of the transition process in Spain. Fear most of all of another civil war:

Feelings came alive in Vicki for which the earth and sea had never taught her names.

Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.

But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.

Dauntless was a talking horse. She just didn't talk much.

Improvisation has to do with exploring something like two brothers in a room together. You find out things about situations by discovering the things that they aren't saying. It's a way to explore scenes. Sometimes it's more useful than others, but it's always there to see if there's anything that you might improve.