You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
Interpretation
True suffering often lies beneath the surface and cannot be measured by outward appearances.
This quote by Salman Rushdie suggests that external indicators of pain or injury do not accurately reflect the depth or severity of what someone might be experiencing internally. It speaks to the complexity of human suffering and encourages a deeper empathy towards others, reminding us that what is visible may only be a fraction of a person's true struggles.
In practice
In a speech about mental health awareness, one might use this quote to illustrate that mental struggles are often hidden.
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!
We are the eyes of the cosmos. So that in a way, when you look deeply into somebody's eyes, you're looking deep into yourself, and the other person is looking deeply into the same self.
One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
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