Unheard Quotes

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“I knew how to be a friend, a lover, a partner. I knew how to make someone feel cherished and seen and listened to -- everything I had myself always so desperately wanted and been afraid I might never have because I was so used to being overlooked.”
― Alexis Hall, Waiting for the Flood

“I forget what the weather was like that day, probably cloudy with a chance of emotion. All I remember is that it was windy; it was the type of wind that would blow your words in the opposite direction so they would never be heard.”
― Hillary Wen, Hildy Wen, Within Serenity Lies A Siren

“Would I always feel so small that it hurt and that even the greatest outcry roaring from my throat was, in reality, just a whimper? Would my footsteps always stop so suddenly and sink into the footpath?”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“Oh, let's tell the world we're unheard. We're unsure.We're unstop, we're unstoppable. Oh let's tell the girls to be strong. To be sure. To be heard. We want to be heard.”
― Sara Quin

“Getting through time was rather the problem. The cry of 'Help me!' — but there was no one there.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“If you feel unseen and unheard, create your own lane.”
― Robin S. Baker

“I swear it looked like she wanted her words to slither around us and go out the door unheard.”
― Jazz Feylynn, Colorado State of Mind

“It's not my fault you didn't hear my cries, if only you would have read my eyes.”
― Rishita

“Most things I pen for you remain unheeded or unheard as they, like feathers, float in the wind to be lost forever at sea...”
― Virginia Alison

“The wide-eyed professor lectured, on the verge of tears, and when class ended, the students closed their notebooks shut and asked of her plans for the weekend, which was answered politely, but with a tinge of sadness, for the professor feared her personhood, which had in her lesson plan existed truly only minutes ago, was already being reduced to the small, meaningless matters of tomorrow.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“I’ve come to understand that in this world, there are those who, in their untouchable privilege, believe that they’re entitled to a perfect life, and the perfect life they get is because they’re so deserving, so good, and true. Their crippled souls are blinded by a naivety that can only understand their life, their pain, their truth. These are the ones who look at us—the mermaids, the fairies, the unicorns—and see only that we don’t fit into their little box of what beauty and truth are. They make token gestures of kindness that are not about what we need, but about what they need to look good in their own eyes, and in the eyes of the world they have moulded to their shallow, selfish limits, leaving us—the magical, the different, the dreamers—feeling less than them; feeling unheard, unseen, and unloved.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“If you feel unheard or unnoticed, then your divine assignment requires you to go against the grain and set forth your own unique path.”
― Robin S. Baker

“I stand for women.
I stand for men.
I stand for those the world ignores.
I stand for those who break, yet rise again.
I stand for the disabled, the lost, the poor.
I stand for the outcast, the unheard, the unseen.
I stand for children, for their dreams and their light.
I stand for the elderly, their wisdom, their fight.
I stand for freedom, for truth, for choice.
I stand for every race, every culture, every voice.
I stand for the weary, the hopeless, the scarred.
I stand for equality, no matter how hard.
I stand for justice, I stand for love, I stand for peace.
I stand, period.”
― N'Zuri Za Austin