“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”

“There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.”

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

“Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.”

“There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”

“And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid…”

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”

“I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.”

“In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”