Paul Walker
Actor
"If one day speed kills me, do not cry because I was smiling."
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Cry
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John Green
Author, YouTuber
"I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater."
Assata Shakur
Activist
"I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating."
Voltaire
Philosopher, Writer
"Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music."
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"You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for."
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"Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength."
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"The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living"
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"Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!"
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"all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be made by some force — of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality — that was close at hand"
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"More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul."
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"Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!"
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"Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not."
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"Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries."
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"Also, I would cry at the words 'I miss you' after I left my family"
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"Nothing in the cry of cicadas suggests they are about to die"
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"Those who do not weep, do not see."
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"Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust."
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"It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone."
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"Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it."
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"Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!."
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"I search but never find, hurt but never cry"
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"If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace."
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"We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own."
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"Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters."
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