Suffer In Silence Quotes

“I'd never learned how to relate to people, much less how to speak up for myself. I preferred to sit and rage quietly.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“What he must have suffered, in his lovely English privacy.”
― Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture

“I cannot say anything about going away. I cannot say anything even in this diary. Perhaps it is better not to say anything ever. I must try not to say anything more to Eddie, when I have said things it has always been a mistake.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart

“Moreover, and of course, she loved him; but in Sefton's stern code her love had always been chained up, and howled fruitlessly, as indeed it did now.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go on and on and nothing would stop it. And no one from now on for ever would know how much he suffered and what it was really like to be him.

How can I bear it, he thought, how can I go on bearing it without becoming something savage and awful?”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Of course Paula had revealed her trouble to no one. She preserved it in her private heart like the awful bloody arcana of a mystical religion.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“Relationships are sometimes irreparable,
No matter your will, they won’t mend at all.
When passion starts to dwindle,
And sweet dreams begin to fall —
Find your strength within,
Take back control.”
― Mouloud Benzadi