Cry Quotes - page 3

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry. (William Butler Yeats)
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul,' I cried. 'My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied.' View quote
William Butler Yeats
In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear. View quote
William Blake
When my mother died, I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep 'weep 'weep 'weep' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. View quote
William Blake
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too. View quote
Douglas Adams
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. View quote
Malcolm X
Earth helped him with the cry of blood. View quote
William Wordsworth
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying? View quote
Tony Campolo
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. (Conor Oberst)
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
A wretched soul bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. View quote
William Shakespeare
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again. View quote
M. R. James
No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. View quote
Manuel Puig
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. (Andrea Hirata)
No, I don't live in heartache. I don't cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And-like it or not-I still think about her every single day. View quote
Harlan Coben
I would lay awake nights and cry a lot thinking, is my dad gonna come home? Is he gonna go to jail again? Is he going to get killed? View quote
Victoria Gotti
I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered. View quote
Elizabeth Berg
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. View quote
Christopher Lasch