Quotes About Unshared

The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

Photography is very personal to me. God knows how many rolls of film I have that I've never shared.

Was being seen the cost of the right to see? No, the worst of it was that my fate was too personal, too special. Unlike hunger, unrequited love, unemployment, sickness, bankruptcy, natural calamity, criminal exposure, my suffering was nothing I endured in common with other men. My misfortune was forever mine alone. Anyone at all could disregard me completely without feeling the slightest twinge of conscience. And I was not even permitted to protest that disregard.

There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.

Untold millions are still untold.

All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

There is a special loneliness in unshared music, even if it was 'The White Cliffs of Dover'.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

She had stuff to give, but it was ungiven; it was locked away.

For ten years I had lived within an elusive circle defined by an unshared childhood; by the daily effort, like an extra pressure of the will, required to speak this uncannily familiar language which fit me like a second skin, without ever being mine.