Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say. — Mitch Albom
If something goes without saying, let it. — Michael Easter
The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid. — Taylor Swift
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. — Ahmad Shamloo
Words that are not spoken are much more powerful than words that are spoken in unbelief. — Charles Capps
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood. — Alexandra Adornetto
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. — Winston Churchill
When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token,
is he who has a ton to tell that must remain unspoken. — Moondog
Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character. — Lysa TerKeurst
A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words. — John Lennon
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. — Emily Dickinson
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. — Winston Churchill
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid. — Cato the Younger
I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid. — Ariana Grande
All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid. — Ralph Caplan
Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together — Taylor Swift
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. — Walter Winchell
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. — Langston Hughes
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid. — Comte De Mirabeau
Unsaid Image Quotes
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Things Left Unsaid Quotes
There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid. — Lauren Aquilina
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid. — Lincoln Chafee
Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid — Leo Tolstoy
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. — Jonathan Swift
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid. — Mariah Carey
There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work. — Garry Winogrand
I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unsaid. He looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him. Never will. He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I’d know joy. — Karen Marie Moning
You know what I'm not going to do I'm not going to tell you every move I'm going to make. This isn't a reality TV show. Some things are just best left unsaid. I'll handle the club the way I deem is necessary. They just need to play. — Clint Hurdle
Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming. — Sam Hamill
Left Unsaid Quotes
True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid. — Joshua Harris
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. — Bernard Meltzer
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. — Bob Dylan
Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid. — Bob Dylan
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid. — J. D. Salinger
Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly. — Andrea Camilleri
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese
We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct. — Diane de Poitiers
Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me. — Mark Lawrence
Words Unsaid Quotes
There is no time to leave important words unsaid. — Paulo Coelho
A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence. — Linda Hogan
Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against. — Philippa Gregory
Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone. — Taylor Swift
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart — Jane Austen
She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid. — Edward Rutherfurd
A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears. — Cassandra Clare
These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret. — Kahlil Gibran
It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. — Frederick Buechner
Leaving Things Unsaid Quotes
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. — Benjamin Franklin
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. — Harlan Miller
The Japanese tend to communicate via nuance and euphemism, often leaving important things unsaid; whereas Americans tend to think they're being subtle when they refrain from grabbing the listener by the shirt. — Dave Barry
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. — Harland Miller
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble. — Robert Jordan
Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid. — Ernst Lubitsch
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. — Marcia Muller
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. — Dorothy Nevill
Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. — George Sala
Unspoken Quotes
Sometimes you search so hard for words. You look for a way to interpret the language of this heart and the unspoken bond you feel. But in the end you are left with nothing but silence. And deep down you hope it’s understood. — Yasmin Mogahed
I appreciate the boldness of gratitude in the quiet, unspoken depths and its ability to buoy another by being articulated. — Mary Anne Radmacher
Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture. — Shirin Neshat
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code? — Doug Coupland
Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love. It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening. — William R. Bradford
enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them. — Emily Carr
When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it. — Arabic Proverbs
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. — David Foster Wallace
As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Unspoken Words Quotes
And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night. — Bradley Nowell
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield
Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart — Rabindranath Tagore
Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way. — Fred Alan Wolf
His heritage to his children wasn't words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father. — Will Rogers, Jr.
Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
With every word unspoken each moment comes undone. — Tarkan
None but those who have loved can be supposed to understand the oratory of the eye, the mute eloquence of a look, or the conversational powers of the face. Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it. — Mark Twain
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words. — Anna Akhmatova
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility. — Harold Pinter
I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen. — Louise Glück
You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive. — Toshiko Takaezu
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid. — Daniel Day-Lewis
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power. — Louise Glück
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think. — Henry Van Dyke
So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid. — Brad Meltzer
Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head. — Steven Morrissey
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