Top 39 Quotes About Silent Suffering
#1. It's funny, or tragic, really, how an ordinary act like helping someone with their homework could be the inadvertent trigger for almost a decade of silent suffering.
Jonathan Tropper
#2. Once I stand and watch helplessly while some rug rat pulls everything he can reach off the racks, and the thought that abortion is wasted on the unborn must show on my face, because his mother finally tells him to stop.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#3. Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
Felicia Hemans
#4. She indulged in silent feelings of satisfaction, pleased with the idea of him suffering. This might even be a bit fun.
Emily Greenwood
#5. The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#6. In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.
Pope Benedict XVI
#7. It's smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It's a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward.
Jessica Park
#8. I have learned that everything is an opportunity for spiritual enrichment.
Marlo Morgan
#9. Quite pure, quite free of future planning, I mounted
the tangled funeral pyre built for my suffering,
so sure of nothing more to buy for future needs,
while in my heart the stored reserves kept silent.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#10. Thus is the earth at once a desert and a paradise, rich in secret hidden gardens, gardens inaccessible, but to which the craft leads us ever back, one day or another.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#11. For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed is sweeter than the presence of delight.
Herman Melville
#12. What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak ... it was born in the moments when we accumulated silent things within us.
Gaston Bachelard
#13. I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Elie Wiesel
#14. tears are a silent passion for suffering-
i found ma self baffeld by hers-
the way they trickled in the presence if moonlight,
driven by the humans didnt undrstand her...
Christopher Poindexter
#15. Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.
Anna Maria Chavez
#16. These overtures of peace, translated into the servile and flattering language of Asia, were transmitted to the camp of the Great King; who resolved to signify, by an ambassador, the terms which he was inclined to grant to the suppliant Romans.
Edward Gibbon
#17. Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#18. There is among the people a silent, long-suffering grief; it withdraws into itself and is silent.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. Those who have a great deal to complain about are so often silent in their suffering, while those who have little to be dissatisfied with are frequently highly vocal about it.
Alexander McCall Smith
#20. Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
Lady Caroline Lamb
#21. Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.
Lester Frank Ward
#22. If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.
Zach Braff
#23. She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.
Nick Laird
#27. He looked down at me. "Congratulations," he said. "That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen." His expression was a mixture of awe and disbelief
"Ever".
Patrick Rothfuss
#28. We are all on this journey of life together, each given certain gifts to make this world a better place and to help make one another's burdens a little lighter along the way.
Mike Ramsdell
#29. He went out of the door, and she watched him through the little window, walking slowly to the door of the church. Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute.
Alan Paton
#30. Let me quickly remind you that the allegation of being mentally incapable is a tried and tested method of silencing women dating back hundreds of years, a weapon to discredit us when we fought against abuses and stood up to authority.
Tom Rob Smith
#31. They say a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; only the silent tremor of pain down its body tells of its suffering.
Chinua Achebe
#32. Being thankful for and celebrating what is attracts more of what can and will be.
T.F. Hodge
#33. Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
Dinesh D'Souza
#35. It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
Booker T. Washington
#36. One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.
Paul Bloom
#37. Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#38. Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.
John Of The Cross
#39. There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.
Richelle E. Goodrich
