Rule of Saint Benedict (516 AD), as edited by Timothy Fry, O. S. B (1981), p. 15
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
“There is no time to leave important words unsaid.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.”
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) English composer
From an article in The Vocalist magazine, 1902; cited from Ursula Vaughan Williams RVW (1964) p. 400.
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Quoted in Words of Wisdom: Winston Churchill, Students’ Academy, Lulu Press (2014), Section Three : ISBN 1312396598
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 22
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
You Would Have Understood Me
“Out of purity and silence come words of power.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Variant: Out of purity and silence come words of power.
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
