33 Quotes About Things Left Unsaid

There are many reasons for being rejected. These quotes about things left unsaid are the perfect examples to the type of conflicts that can create unresolved issues.

“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.”

“All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.”

“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”

“Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid.”

“Don’t leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.”

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”

“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…”

“I don’t have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.”

“I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.”

“I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid…”

“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.”

“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.”

“In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.”

“In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.”

“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”

“Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid.”

“Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.”

“People in bands don’t have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker’s lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.”

“The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.”

“There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”

“There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.”

“There’s a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn’t just inside our walls-it was inside my skin.”

“‎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.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.”

“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.”

“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.”

Having unresolved issues are commonly a result of things being left unsaid.