The film takes its title from the last sentence of Middlemarch by George Eliott: "... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
低语广角全片书信旁白如诗般美丽抛弃文本只为恋人作诗篇只为信仰作韵脚结尾艾略特的诗已经讲述了一切:and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.