Anne McCaffrey Quotes

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

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.

I love to cry. It's great.

Ain't nothing like a good cry.

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

If I wanted to curse you out, I would write everything I wanted to say to you in my diary, and it was like screaming in my head. After that, I would have no feelings for you; I wouldn't be mad at you or upset because I already said it to you when I wrote it down. That's what writing did for me.

Sometimes my feelings need to come out of my mouth and my head so the universe can have them. That's what the universe is there for: to take my bad thoughts away.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

I cry to let everything out

I always feel better after a good scream.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

There's something about a catharsis that is very important.

Sometimes when I'm in the car driving, I scream at the top of my lungs.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

I cry fairly regularly, it's important to let it out.

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

I like a good cry every now and then. It releases something. There are times in my life when I'm meant to cry, but I don't actually cry. But then I can be walking down the street and it's been a few months, and things get on top of me - that's when I find myself crying.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

Everybody knows from his own experience that after laughter, good laughter, a belly laugh, you almost feel that you have taken an ice-cold shower; a peace, a silence, a freshness... The same is true about crying, but very few people know the secret of crying because it is more repressed than laughter.

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.