Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Or maybe crying is like everything else we do- it's best if you don't get caught.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I'm not a big crier.

I don't really cry.

I'm not too big on feelings.

I don't cry often.

Emotions fascinate me, just being able to express myself through acting. I love that. And I think, in everyday life, you're always trying to repress your emotions. Like if you're sad, you don't want to show it to someone else.

I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.

Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance.

For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.

Which of us can control his feelings?

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

If we don't learn how to cry, we can't be good Christians. This is a challenge. Don't be frightened of crying.

My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence causes them to boil over. That, very simply, was what adulthood must be all about -- acquiring the skill to bury things more deeply. Out of sight and, whenever possible, out of mind.

I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.