Quote for Today: Okakura Kakuzō
But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for …
Quote for Today: Richard Yates
The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while …
Quote for Today: Frank Capra
I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. ―Frank Capra
Quote for Today: Alexander Lowen
We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we …
Walking the Edge: Grief and the Performing Persona
Creativity gives us insight into the subconscious, but it doesn’t necessarily tell us how to deal with what we find. If you’ve experienced raw tears while in front of a …
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me …
Quote for Today: Colette
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one …
Quote for Today: Charles Dickens
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had …
Quote for Today: Colin Thiele
A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of …
Quote for Today: Tim Burton
The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also …