Unspoken Truth Quotes

We know more than we can tell.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

The most potent elements in a work of art are, often, its silences.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

When you've had a relationship with anybody in your life and you both know what that relationship is, you don't have to do anything to prove to anybody that you've had that relationship. It just exists.

The truth is silent. The truth doesn't come with words. It's something that I just know; it's something that I can feel without words, and it's called silent knowledge.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

There's a degree of deception in silence.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

I know a lot of artists and chefs don't talk about this, but sometimes you just don't get to the finish line. That honesty and tenderness is something we're kind of not supposed to express.

I want to start where language ends.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Good night, Seth." "So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor. "I'm not running." The other boot hit the floor. "Really?" "Really. It's just—" She stopped; she didn't have anything that would finish that sentence and be honest. "Maybe you should slow down, so I can catch you." He paused, waiting.