Unspoken Realities Quotes

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.

One of the things that free people do is engage in conspiracies of silence about problems that do not seem solvable.

What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

I think one thing with Sweden is that in some way the Swedish society is a very good society, almost perfect on the surface. That is something that makes the writers forced to see what is underneath the surface, because it's always something underneath the surface, of course.

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

A lot of subjects are untouched by the Indian Television.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

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.

People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.

I think that's also why it's so exciting. I really believe this play is important these are issues that people don't talk about. Certainly they never talked about this type of thing at my high school. That's what makes it so hard for kids. But it is something that people do go through.

There are things I've seen and experienced in this world - things they don't talk about in too many books.

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

I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

British culture loves the image of itself in the mirror; it doesn't want to look deep inside, behind the eyes, inside the brain, inside where those shivers and nightmares lie.

I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me... there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.