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Quotes About Unspoken

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.
~ Louise Gluck
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star.
~ Joaquin Miller
I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
~ Edward Abbey
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
~ Pindar
But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.
~ Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
Fiction is most effective when its themes are unspoken. An ideal fiction has a kind of thematic ghostliness, whereby the novel marks its meanings most strongly as it passes, as it disappears, rather as on a street snow gets dirtier, more marked, as it disappears.
~ James Wood
Their shared loss went unsaid, but never unremembered. Sendai,
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least.
~ Jane Welsh Carlyle
Chris will not talk," she said. "He will keep everything in his heart, and later it will burst.
~ Jason DeParle
Cuántas cosas se van no diciendo a lo largo de una vida o historia o relato, a veces sin querer o sin proponérselo.
~ Javier Marías
thanking them for coming, and reminding Con to give the dog a bit of something when he gets home late, she forgets altogether to hand him the letter. Holding it after he has left she thinks of the many crucial things left unsaid.
~ Edna O'Brien
Pride of friend or enemy did not need any words.
~ Alexander Kent
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.
~ Alexandra Adornetto
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
~ Michael Polanyi
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs
~ Richard Crashaw
Nico and Hazel exchanged looks. They both knew better, but they said nothing.
~ Rick Riordan
What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
nothing and yet everything had passed between us.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.
~ Gayle Forman
As important as shared memories is the silent agreement that certain things never happened.
~ Robert Breault
We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.
~ William Saroyan
and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.
~ David Nicholls