William Saroyan Quotes

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.

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

Then I dive into my tent before I do something stupid like cry.

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 don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

I think we're all sensitive; everyone has a certain way about themselves that people don't like to let their emotions out too often. I think people tend to suppress them and hold them in, so I think there's a bit of that in me.

I don't even like to cry in private.

I don't really cry.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.

But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

I cry secretly. I don't really cry in front of anybody. I hate crying. I feel like it's not accomplishing anything. But when I lost my mother, I cried, and I cried big.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

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

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

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit.

I tend to not wallow too much in sentiment if I can avoid it.