Unspoken Thoughts Quotes

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

I never said half the things I said.

My father said that a silent person is trying to hide something.

People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do.

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

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

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

I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.

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.

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

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

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

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

There are things I cannot say.

There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There’s no question about that and it’s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody’s thinking it.

Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

Reticences are as revealing as avowals.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

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

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.