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

  Elizabeth Smart

  Talking, Feelings, Language

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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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• Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

  Stanley Nelson Jr.

  Gun, Race, Ideas

  "This New Film Will Change the Way You Think About the Black Panthers". Interview with Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2016.

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• You never date someone's ex-boyfriend. Period. That's not even the unspoken rule - that's the spoken rule.

  Eva Longoria

  Ex Boyfriend, Periods, Unspoken Rules

  "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

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• One of the unspoken themes that I'm grappling with in Day of Honey is the relationship between violence and cosmopolitanism. It's one thing to comprehend violence as an outgrowth of ignorance, poverty, and backwardness. It's another matter entirely to confront incredible atrocities in a country with a rich civic and intellectual life.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Country, Ignorance, Intellectual

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What is in the air there in Washington, what is in the water? What is wrong with them? This is not a rhetorical question. I think it is unspoken question No.1 as Americans look at so many of the individuals in our government. What is wrong with them?

  Peggy Noonan

  Thinking, Government, Air

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• 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

  Art, Women, Islamic

  Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.

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• 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

  Heart, Eye, Loss

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1434, Simon and Schuster

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• Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.

  Rick Yancey

  Prayer, Broken, Promise

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• Yes, but . . .” She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. “I survived because I fell in love.” With you was unspoken.

  Kim Harrison

  Love You, I Fell In Love With You, Survived

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Promise, Corporations

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.90, Random House

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• We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.

  Frank Miller

  Men, Hands, Understanding

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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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• 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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• 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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• Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

  Steve Kluger

  Men, Romance, Language

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• It seems so much of my time and my energy have been focused on making or trying to make other people love me. The unspoken belief was that if I could make myself lovable to others I would feel loved....The truth is, I can only feel loved by others when I love myself.

  Kimberly Kirberger

  People, Trying, Energy

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• A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

  Russell Sherman

  Art, Balance, Sheets

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• There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.

  Glen Hansard

  Nice, Jeans, Dresses

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What I mean by "An Unspoken Hunger." It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by material things. It's a hunger that cannot be quelled by the constant denial.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Mean, Denial, Hunger

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.

  John Robinson

  Leaving, Important, Trying

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• Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Heart, Simple, Mind

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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