Unsaid Quotes

“who did I think we were.
who did I think
I could make you.

this is the oldest mistake,
to confuse wanting
with magic. silence is the undoing
of every spell, and we are experts
in the unsaid. even now, I forget
to put us in past tense. as if
the air in this city were the same.
as if love is anything like its speaking.”
― Marty McConnell Emily Kagan Trenchard

“The unseen is almost always underlined with the unsaid.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Everything unsaid can be guessed
Truth may not always be confessed”
― Munia Khan

“Listening isn't just about being quiet.
It's about listening to -
What is Said,
What is Unsaid,
and
What is meant
With your Eyes, Ears and Heart”
― Drishti Bablani

“There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“There is more to hear in what is not said.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“And everything stayed unsaid.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann

“Listening isn't just about being quiet.
It's about listening to what is said,
what is unsaid, and
what is meant
with your eyes, ears and heart.”
― Drishti Bablani, Wordions

“When one has an urge to say something but wouldn't quite know 'what' & 'how' .. it is better to let it remain unsaid.”
― Neena Verma

“Listening isn't just about being quiet.
It's about listening to -
What is Said,
What is Unsaid,
and
What is meant
With your Eyes, Ears and Heart”
― Wordions

“so much more was said in the unsaid”
― bridgett devoue, soft thorns

“Inside the carriage, Cardan slumps. I stare at him, at the blood drying in tide lines over his body and crusting in his curls like tiny garnets. I force myself to look out the window instead.

'How long have I-' he hesitates.

'Not even three days,' I tell him. 'Barely any time at all.' I do not mention how long it has seemed.

Nor do I say how he might have been trapped as a serpent for all time, bridled and bound. Or dead.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.”
― Tyler Knight, Burn My Shadow: A Selective Memory of an X-Rated Life

“Affection there had always been between them, whatever their disagreements—and there had been more of these than Zacharias had permitted Sir Stephen to know.”
― Zen Cho, Sorcerer to the Crown

“Let X be the moon like a notary.
Let Y be all things left unsaid.”
― Quan Barry, Asylum

“A couple hundred languages, infinite letters, yet, some emotions are left unsaid.”
― Misbah Khan, Blanks & Blues

“What I really wanted to say was: You don't even bother to attempt to leave the house most days. Were it not for me, we would starve. Were it not for me, we'd be dead.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Some exclamations give you the exact meaning of words left unsaid.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I left the room because, and only because, we had said all we could say. The unsaid words pushed roughly against the thoughts that we had no crafts to verbalize, and crowded the room to uneasiness.”
― Maya Angelou

“I walked back to the living room and found my father asleep on the sofa, his round mouth pursed and tightly shut, his breath filtering softly through his nose. A single fly, its armored back an oily, metallic green, was dancing a circle on his chin. What he'd brought home from work.”
― Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker