private suffering Quotes

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us. It is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the funeral that are over too quickly, or the conversations among the cognoscenti, those of us who recognize in one another a kindred chasm deep in the center of who we are.

I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.

I ... think public service and private misery inseparably linked together.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

No one knows whom the shoe pinches - no one.

When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.

Tap into what you don't want to say. Tap into that secret place, despite the agony, despite the personal pain, over and above the fatigue.

The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

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

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

There are wounds of self-love which one does not confess to one's dearest friends.

As I tried to put the pieces of my life and that of my children back together, I returned to my very public job, but continued to suffer in private.

It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.