unexpressed ideas Quotes

The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted.

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

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.

Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.