Kristin Hannah Quotes

Much unhappiness has come to the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I look back upon my times when more people were listening to what I had to say, and I didn't say enough.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

They missed a great opportunity to shut up.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

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

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

I have noticed that nothing that I never said ever did me any harm.

I had lost something in my youth and made money instead.

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

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

deep down...she's a good woman...you should be proud of her." When I told my mom about this, she just looked very sad because he could never say those things to her. Not ever. Not even when he walked her down the aisle.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

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

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.

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

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.