Gayle Forman Quotes

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

I like crying. And now I not only wanna cry and show my crying to other people, I wanna just split myself down the middle and open my guts and just throw everything out!

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

When I was younger, I used to say, 'I'm not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.' For me, vulnerability is an act of uncovering. It's a revealing: the idea of putting aside your armour and allowing pain to enter.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

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 love to cry. It's great.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I'm a crier. You won't see me lashing out, but you will see me crying a lot.

I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.