Unspoken Pain Quotes

There are some things that you see that are hard to talk about. You can't talk about it. You just bear witness to them.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear

She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.

A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are loath to talk about their experiences. And the survivors of the Holocaust, particularly, are often very close-mouthed about their stories, even to their own children.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

I never got hugged as child.

She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her, understanding every second and longing to step in. I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

In all the silent manliness of grief.

Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.

It's a painful thing to talk about my childhood. I kind of don't talk about it much.

I have no words for my reality.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

If [my son] had any pain in feeling that he couldn't express to me, that would hurt.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.