silent agony Quotes

It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

I stuff my mouth with old fabric and scream until there are no sounds left under my skin.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

Even though it hurt, there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.

Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I had practiced not saying anything the whole way from the airport, and it was still nearly killing me.