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Quotes About Unspoken

I would always rather not know. Then, no matter what can happen, it was not me that talked.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Captain Hornby thought this a very sensible idea. He knew, and Elsa knew, that the unspoken thought underlying her suggestion was, "If you are killed your lawyers will know what is here"; a thought which, spoken and unspoken, must underlie most people's arrangements now.
~ Angela Thirkell
Only what is within you is near; all else is far. And this within: so packed and pressured, barely contained, unsayable.
~ Anita Barrows
The difficulty, as I saw it, was that she was trying to manage a public self whereas she was by nature a miniaturist who excelled at drawing into her field of activity nuances, intimations, unspoken thought, the most tenuous of personal statements. She was better at the glancing criticism than at spontaneous magnanimity
~ Anita Brookner
I love, in movies, when you feel and you understand the past of the character without it being said or having a flashback or something that explains. I think, in 'Prisoners,' we need to understand that Loki's character's past was not first class. He was not the first in his class.
~ Denis Villeneuve
There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.
~ Bennett Miller
sometimes the best engineers come in bodies that can't talk
~ Robert I. Sutton
No one talked, but they all said plenty.
~ Lee Child
If you're Irish enough, you can go an entire lifetime filled with conversations that never took place, like those
~ Leon Uris
room. Angus cleared his throat, and Rafe and Kade stared down at their plates, all signs of their previous amusement
~ Linda Lael Miller
He would have liked to speak; but there were no words. Not even in Shakespeare.
~ Aldous Huxley
When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.
~ Aleister Crowley
Tu sais pourquoi Jean Barbek s'est arrêté de parler? lui demande-t-il. - C'est une des nombreuses choses qu'il n'a jamais dites.
~ Alessandro Baricco
It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.
~ Alex Flinn
In the lives of most of us, the list of unsaid things was, he thought, a long one.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Undisclosed failings, she thought; that great weight we all carry around with us, some of us for all our lives, unable to speak about them, unable -- involuntary Atlases all -- to share the burden.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.
~ Donna Woolfolk Cross
He waited for her to say more but only silence roiled about them.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
Some things need to be left unsaid.
~ Simone Elkeles, Wild Cards
sometimes I feel my heart fall to vague depths between words there are such spaces that I can't help but feel my heart fall between the pregnant pause of all you will not say and all i can not ask
~ Jewel Kilcher
Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
~ Jim George
Sometimes I think they are, not that it's ever been said
~ Jo Goodman
uttered a word. He had
~ Joan Johnston
God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken And yet so profound, and so loud, and so far, That it thrills you and fills you in measures unbroken— The unceasing song of the first morning star....
~ Joaquin Miller