Quote by Dwight E. Abbott

“I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.”

— Jodi Picoult

“I did not cry. I only breathed. Horribly. Intentionally. And then forgot to breathe.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“And I can't cry, I don't even want to cry. My tears would never do justice to this loss.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.”

— Erin Merryn

“When you can’t cry because all you are is pain, and if you let some of it out, you might cease to exist.”

— Ally Condie

“I don't even know if I have the capacity for normal emotions or not because I haven't cried for a long time. You just…

— Jeffrey Dahmer

“I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.”

— Knut Hamsun

“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though…

— James Baldwin

“Sometimes, when you are worn down, day after day, relentlessly, with no reprieve for years piled on years, sometimes you lose everything but the…

— Leila Sales

“I think unconsciously I was afraid that if she asked me how I felt, my unleashed grief and rage would kill us all. In…

— Jean Hegland

“And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for all the things he did. I was crying…

— Ray Bradbury