Unspoken Quotes

• Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

  Mitch Albom

  Fearless, Unspoken Words, Haunting

  Twitter post from Aug 05, 2013

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• Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

  George Eliot

  Light, Broken, Darkness

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.350

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• Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mean, Disappear

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• With every word unspoken each moment comes undone.

  Tarkan

  Moments, Undone

  Song: Over, Album: Come Closer, 2006

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• The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Names, Ideas, Silence

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.888, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Talking, Feelings, Language

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• Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Heart, Rhetoric

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• 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

  Inspirational, Hope, Islamic

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• A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

  Henry Ford

  Scatterbrain

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• I had never felt the allure of another human being this strongly, warmth and curiosity mixing to form an unspoken question in the air.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Air, Curiosity, Mixing

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.368, St. Martin's Press

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• 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

  Secret Love, Silence, Deeds

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• 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

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.34

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• That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

  Vera Farmiga

  Important, Lines, Transparency

  "Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• 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

  Home, Challenges, Resistance

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.13, U of Nebraska Press

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• There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

  Andrea Levy

  Two, Long, World

  Andrea Levy (2010). “Small Island: A Novel”, p.446, Macmillan

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• I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Boys, Awkward

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.

  Margot Kidder

  Stars, Ordinary, Clubs

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• So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Sadness, President Kennedy's Assassination, Promise

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an
  unspoken cosmic rule.

  Bree Despain

  Broken, Promise, Problem

  Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.16, Egmont UK

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• I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I'm at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.

  Paulo Coelho

  Secret Places, Space, Feelings

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• Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Magic, Unseen

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Unfinished Work, Long, Remembrance

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Women, Imagination, Sentimental

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• Race is the great taboo in our society. We are afraid to talk about it. White folks fear their unspoken views will be deemed racist. People of color are filled with sorrow and rage at unrighted wrongs. Drowning in silence, we are brothers and sisters drowning each other. Once we decide to transform ourselves from fearful caterpillars into courageous butterflies, we will be able to bridge the racial gulf and move forward together towards a bright and colorful future.

  Eva Paterson

  Brother, Moving, Future

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