Unspoken Issues Quotes

Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion

It does our Muslim compatriots no favors to fuel suspicions and leave things unspoken.

The one thing ... maybe no family could tolerate was things coming out into the open.

Really? Screaming?” He shrugged. “It wasn’t that bad. But there were definitely some freak-outs on both sides. Though, to be honest, the silence was worse.” “Worse than screaming?” I said. “Much,” he said, nodding. “I mean, at least with an argument, you know what’s happening. Or have some idea. Silence is… it could be anything. It’s just –” “So freaking loud,” I finished for him. He pointed at me. “Exactly.

When it comes to having children or not having children, I don't think we realise how many women have to deal with things quietly.

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

There’s something really rich and powerful in not talking about what you need to talk about sometimes.

I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.

We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

We weren't the kind of family that talked about our problems. We were a close family, in a kind of faraway way. It wasn't a being-with-each-other kind of close. We all went our own ways.

By the time you get to your sixth record, some of the benefits of being in a band are grander than ever, but some of the obstacles are just massive. You deal with these lateral subjects, and all that is left is the elephant in the room.

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

I sing about the things that I don't have conversations about.

Families in which nothing is ever discussed usually have a lot not to discuss.

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

There are so many things we don't know about because they don't get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.

A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it.

There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.

As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.