Erich Maria Remarque Quotes

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

It can be very lonely knowing that you have things to say but you daren't say them. Knowing that you could contribute to something but you don't dare quite do it.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There are things I cannot say.

Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

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

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her. Nothing, however, exits my mouth. How well do we really let ourselves know each other? There's a long quietness until I finally break it open. It reminds me of someone breaking bread and handing it out. In my case, I hand out a question to my friend.

What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence.

There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better 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.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

She picked up the book and then walked back past him into the tent, but as she did so, she brushed the top of his head lightly with her hand. He closed his eyes at her touch, and hated himself for wishing that what she said was true: that Dumbledore had really cared.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee? - With silence and tears