Suffering In Silence Quotes

“And I am the most miserable man alive, and more so because no one at this dinner table has the slightest notion of what's tearing me up.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“The courage of the authoritarian character is essentially a courage to suffer what fate or its personal representative or “leader” may have destined him for. To suffer without complaining is his highest virtue—not the courage of trying to end suffering or at least to diminish it. Not to change fate, but to submit to it, is the heroism of the authoritarian character.”
― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

“I find acceptance to be the key that unlocked my mental cage, freeing me from the mental and emotional suffering I've been carrying for years.”
― Ava Walters, The Radical Acceptance Workbook: Transform Your Life & Free Your Mind with the Healing Power of Self-Love & Compassion - Positive Lessons to Treat Anxiety, ... Self-Judgement

“As he rose to go and held Louise's hand and gazed at her he felt for a moment his old love for her taking possession of his whole being. They looked at each other. I feed upon this looking, thought Clement, but does she? I don't know, and I cannot ask. I am terrified of saying something which would wound our whole precious relationship. We are well as we are. I love her, that's all, that is my drama.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Green Knight

“I hate seeing my friends suffer. I hate seeing anyone suffer.”
― Starr Z. Davies, Unique

“Molly wanted to hug the young girl close, stroke her black hair and tell her that loneliness, while unpleasant, was endurable. Not once, though, did she consider telling the girl that she was wrong for that reassurance would be a lie, wouldn’t it be? She was, after all, her, and in the intervening four decades, the girl’s prescience had been proven right. Loneliness had indeed been the condition—would always be the condition—of Molly’s life, of being misunderstood and neglected by others, even amidst a crowd and friends and, for a few years, a husband.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“So if there is any truth to it all - it is that everyone suffers in their own”
― Laura Chouette

“So if there is any truth to it all - it is that everyone suffers in their own way.”
― Laura Chouette

“Secret suffering is crueller than public misery.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“Ok, I get it now ... and it's just like you to do this to yourself ... you've been suffering inside your head the entire time, haven't you?”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold / Tales from the Café / Before Your Memory Fades

“For truth may live or perish, but in the end, it indeed suffers.”
― Laura Chouette

“For many suffer but not everybody lives.”
― Laura Chouette

“Hell isn’t beneath us—it’s stitched into the fabric of this world, disguised as life. I didn’t want to vanish—I just didn’t want to rot unheard.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“At some point, I tried alcohol because I thought it would help me numb my pain. I just wanted something that would make me mellow and help ease my mental anguish. Boy, was I wrong? All it did was escalate my misery. As a matter of fact, I’d end up sobbing myself to sleep. It’s as if the liquor made my pain, suffering, and depression palpable. Don’t even consider the "devil’s drink" as a remedy. It’ll just add to your problems... Trust me, I have been there and done that.”
― James B. Agape, Pent Up Thoughts