Frank Ocean Quotes

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I don't really cry.

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

I don't even like to cry in private.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I don't like crying. I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. 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. Oh yes, I cry.

Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

I'm not too big on feelings.

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

I don't cry often.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

I don't cry about anything.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infrequently something triggers the urge to weep, but I don't allow myself.

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'