unseen sorrow Quotes

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

Hurt that's not supposed to show, and tears that fall when no one knows.

More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living children haunted your heart; they could never know, and would hate it if they did, how their growing was a constant bereavement.