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• Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto

  Matsuo Basho

  Kyoto, Long, Cuckoos

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• I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions

  Carrie Fisher

  Passion, Light, Perfect

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Decision, Religion, Way

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.13, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.

  John Wyndham

  War, Ocean, Will To Survive

  John Wyndham (1951). “The Day of the Triffids”, Fawcett

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• Sharley felt his strength ebbing away, and his weak leg throbbed painfully, but then a tingling sensation thrilled through his frame and the fighting blood of the Lindenshield clan began to roar through his veins. He drew breath and out crashed the war cry of the icemark.

  Stuart Hill

  War, Fighting, Blood

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• As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.

  Melina Marchetta

  School, Trying, Stories

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• 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.

  Amy Tan

  Turtles, Joy, Sorrow

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.217, Penguin

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• I know why people die of hopelessness. It comes on like a thick blanket, covering your thoughts, your confidence, creeping into your mind and filling the corners. I lie in the dark, suffocating under horrible dispare, wishing I were dead. I sleep, then wake, then sleep. The sleep is filled with monstrous dreams that attack, cry out, and vanish, leaving me once more awake and staring into the darkness. Help me! My mind is screaming, but there is no one to hear.

  Joan Lowery Nixon

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

  Anne Lamott

  Religious, Israel, Justice

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.26, Anchor

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• Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

  Brian Jacques

  Nature, Memories, Grief

  Brian Jacques, Peter Standley (2002). “Taggerung”

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• I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

  Alice Hoffman

  Want, Stones, Woods

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• I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.

  Lloyd Jones

  Dad, Laughter, Children

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• Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

  Lauren Conrad

  Love, Sad, Heartbreak

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• Stop!' I cried imploringly to my god-like mind.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Mind, Tears, Cried

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.411, LSU Press

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• Only against death does man cry out in vain.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Men, Doe, Vain

  Malcolm Lowry (1965). “Selected letters”

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• What we want most is to be held...and told..that everything (everything is a funny thing, is baby milk and papa's eyes, is roaring logs on a cold morning, is hoot owls and the boy who makes you cry after school, is mama's long hair, is being afraid and twisted faces on the bedroom wall)...is going to be alright.

  Truman Capote

  Baby, Morning, Wall

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

  Leonard Cohen

  Laughing

  Song: So Long, Marianne, 1967

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• And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for ye canna help it. I mean to make you sigh as though your heart would break, and scream with the wanting, and at last to cry out in my arms, and I shall know that I've served ye well.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Heart, Mean, Wish

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.652, Dell

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• The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.

  Arthur Miller

  Spring, Writing, Order

  Arthur Miller, Matthew Charles Roudané (1987). “Conversations with Arthur Miller”, p.287, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

  Sherman Alexie

  Life, Pain, Mad

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.137, Random House

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• Only the children know what they are looking for. They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Children, Yawning, Important

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• You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.

  Samuel Beckett

  Fall, Night, Darkness

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Eye, Night

  "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

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• somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.

  John Eldredge

  Jesus, Hate, Lying

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• Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

  Langston Hughes

  Baby, Sweet, May

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.122, Vintage

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