Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

I like to have a good cry at a sad film.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.

Letting off steam always produces more heat than light.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

It's good for young people to be angry about something.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.

I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.

Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, like with destruction and all that. But I believe everybody should have like a room where they can get rid of all their releases, where they can do their releases at. So my room is a stage.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

People feel better because Donald Trump says all kinds of things no one else would say and we get certain tendencies out of our system. So if attacking immigrants, say, is a substitute for doing something worse, there's at least a scenario under which that's a better alternative than something else that might have happened.

You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas.