Top 112 Unsaid Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.
There's a universe inside your head, constellations of the things you left unsaid.
The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.
Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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.
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
Some things need to be left unsaid.
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.
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.
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.
Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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.
Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people's lives, and things are left unsaid, it can be very unsettling. The lack of closure can linger.
Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.
Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.
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.
I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.
Words empty as the wind are best left 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.
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.
There is no time to leave important words unsaid.
Some promises are better left unsaid
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.
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.
The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
Much unhappiness has come from things left unsaid
Don't leave it all unsaid, somewhere in the wasteland of your head.
The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and seeing the hidden fear in someone's eye.
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart
All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.
I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.
Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.
I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? - and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever.
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think.
I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'
What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.
And things go unsaid soon get forgotten
From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
The Japanese, if I understand them, are masters of the unsaid and the unstated, of subtlety and ambiguity, all of which constitute powerful stimulants to the imagination.
It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.
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.
Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.