Untold suffering seldom is.

In its compressed, epigrammatic form, the line plays on the cliché “untold suffering” to argue that suffering is rarely silent or invisible. It suggests that pain tends to announce itself—through complaint, behavior, or the marks it leaves—so the phrase “untold” can be more rhetorical than literal. The remark can be read as a skeptical, even wry observation about human nature: people generally communicate distress, and audiences often recognize it, even when it is not formally narrated. At the same time, it implicitly challenges readers to notice what is expressed indirectly, since “telling” may occur through hints rather than explicit confession.