Raheem DeVaughn Quotes

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Ain't nothing like a good cry.

She needs to have a few drinks and cry a little-then she'll be perfect.

I have been crying," she replied, simply, "and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man

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.

Tears are great peace-makers.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven't done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

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

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

There's nothing wrong with making people laugh. We all need to laugh. Sometimes I get all these laughs inside of me, and there's no place to let 'em out.

I think if a movie makes you cry, you probably needed to cry.

I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.

Once I see my mother's smiling face, I forget all the shooting pressures and tensions. I am the happiest person at that moment.

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an emotional release.