Unsaid Words Quotes

What I don't write is as important as what I write.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.

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

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

Some things need to be left unsaid.

But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

I never told my father I loved him before he died, and I have a lot of issues about that. They're all swimming around in my head, in my heart, unresolved, and in a way it felt fitting to dedicate the film to him.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

I will not comment on this question. But sometimes not answering tells the truth better than any answer would.

My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'

I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'

Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.