Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

One of my aunties inspires me beause of how easily she shows her emotions, and she isn't ever afraid to cry. My mum, for her work ethic - she might not show her emotions in public very much, but she's a total power woman. My grandma, who watched four of her children die before her, she's a powerhouse.

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.

Be brave enough to break your own heart.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, Just be true to who you are

The tears, when they come to some men, are worse than beatings. They're wounded worse by sobbing, men like that, than they are by boots and batons. Tears begin in the heart, but some of us deny the heart so often, and for so long, that when it speaks we hear not one but a hundred sorrows in the heartbreak. We know that crying is a good and natural thing. We know that crying isn't a weakness, but a kind of strength. Still, the weeping rips us root by tangled root from the earth, and we crash like fallen trees when we cry.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

I can cry all day long - that's easy for me.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care.