Anton Chekhov & Comedy Shorts TV - W H Auden - Proverbs - Charles Darwin - Star Trek: Voyager TV - Mike Tyson - William Shakespeare – Psalms 141:1 – Psalms 142:1 - John 11:50 - Sylvia Plath - Robert G Ingersoll - Oscar Wilde - Judy Garland - Gustave Flaubert - Tupac Shakur - Charles Dickens - The Office US TV - Charlie Chaplin - Alan Paton – Robert Tressell – The World Cup’s Most Shocking Moments TV - The Lookout 2007 -
I haven’t been much of a success at anything. I’ve gotten old and stupid. I look perfectly happy up here but you know what I’d really like to do is start screaming at the top of my lungs. Or run somewhere where nobody could find me. And there’s nobody I can complain to. There are times when I feel like crying. Chekhov: Comedy Shorts: The Proposal starring Sheridan Smith & Mathew Horne, Sky Arts 2010
Sob, heavy world,
Sob as you spin
Mantled in mist, remote from the happy. W H Auden, 1907-1973
It is no use crying over spilt milk. Mid-17th century proverb
When I am dead know how many times I have kissed and cried over this. Charles Darwin
Seven, you are crying. Star Trek: Voyager s7e2: Imperfection, Icheb to Seven of Nine
Your tears were the result of a glitch in your primary node. ibid. Doctor to Seven of Nine
I don’t react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don’t care about anything. It’s just too hard for me to get emotional. I can’t cry no more. Mike Tyson
A hue and cry. William Shakespeare, I Henry IV II v 513, Sheriff to Prince Harry
When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee. Psalms 141:1
I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication. Psalms 142:1
Jesus wept. John 11:50
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 or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit’s cry may be wilder
But it has no soul. Sylvia Plath, Ariel
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. Robert G Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. Oscar Wilde
There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life ... I think I must have been crying for some attention. Judy Garland
He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here ’cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care? Tupac Shakur
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 cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
It was a pretty disappointing day. It was kind of a slap in the face, to realize that I wasn’t as important as I thought I was to a certain young executive. Who I had cared about. But you know, I’m not going to cry about it. I did that on the way home. The Office US s4e5: Launch Party I, NBC 2007
I always like walking in the rain, so no-one can see me crying. Charles Chaplin
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. Alan Paton, ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’
He paid the money at once; half an hour afterwards the van came to take the things away, and when they were gone, Mary sank down on the hearthrug in the wrecked room and sobbed as if her heart would break. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
7) In 1990 one man played his way into the hearts of the nation ... We watched a grown man lose the plot. [Gascoine’s tears] The World Cup’s Most Shocking Moments, BBC 2011
Sometimes I cry for no reason. But I’m getting a handle on it. The Lookout 2007 starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Jeff Daniels & Matthew Goode & Isla Fisher & Carla Gugino & Bruce McGill & Alberta Watson & Alex Borstein & Sergio di Zio & David Huband & Laura Vandervoort et al, director Scott Frank