A Cry For Help Quotes

#1. The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

Zig Ziglar

#3. A cry for help that only Ma and someone else's apple pie - " because Christ knows Ma can't bake " - can fix.

Shelly Laurenston

#4. An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act ... You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Bronislaw Malinowski

#5. What you've written isn't a novel. It's a cry for help. I

Augusten Burroughs

#6. Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?

C.S. Lewis

#7. Have you made any plans?
Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself.
All those things together?
It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.

Sarah Kane

#8. She said Mom closed up the house one day, turned the oven on full, and sat by its open door. Apparently it's still a Cry For Help, even though our oven's electric.

D.B.C. Pierre

#9. Christmas sweaters are only acceptable as a cry for help.

Andy Borowitz

#10. Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.

Jamie Oliver

#11. Women only cut their hair in times of crisis ... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

Bella Pollen

#12. I open up a paper clip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this? A whimper, a peep? I draw little windowcracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. It looks like I arm-wrestled a rosebush.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.

David Blunkett

#14. I do not think the patient truly meant to end her life. Her act was a cry for help.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#15. [asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help]
No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.

Wentworth Miller

#16. Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me

Thom Yorke

#17. A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

Jerry Seinfeld

#18. I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#19. It was not, they observed with exquisite understatement, a cry for help.

Jojo Moyes

#20. The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it's a cry for help. It wasn't.

Courtney Summers

#21. God will sometimes allow things to get bad enough that we will be forced to look up. Victory always begins with a cry for help. When we come to the end of ourselves and cry out for help, amazing things happen.

Beth Moore

#22. Dotty (off): HELP!
...
Archie: It's all right - just exhibitionism: what we psychiatrists call 'a cry for help'.
Bones: But it was a cry for help.
Archie: Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. All exhibitionism is a crey for help, but a cry for help as such is only exhibitionism.

Tom Stoppard

#23. I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

Cory Monteith

#24. Most teenage suicide attempts are cries for help; the teens survive, succeeding in bringing them the wanted attention. Mine was not a cry for help. I wanted to end my life and my misery.

Sharon E. Rainey

#25. Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

Marianne Williamson

#26. But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.

David Levithan

#27. She says that what you did was a cry for help."
"It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

Holly Black

#28. You hate me don't you? You must hate me. I can't help it. I'm broken."
Trent squeezes me close to him. "I don't hate you. I could never hate you. Give me your heart, Kacey. I'll take everything that comes with it." I start to cry. Uncotrollably, for the first time in four year.

K.A. Tucker

#29. It's a film made in a very radical creative manner. It was possible because we didn't have to pander to capitalism. I think the film is also a humanistic cry for help for animation. It's a film [Boy and the World] with sensitivities completely opposite to what the market wants to sell.

Alex Abreu

#30. Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

Alexis Carrel

#31. Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for help, said Chiron.

C.J. Anderson

#32. His glance was like a plea, like the cry for help of a man who could never cry.

Ayn Rand

#33. For I thought there was a relation between God and the soul as yet unknown. On this theme the mind can reason to a point, a dead, impassable wall; arrived there, all that remains is to stand and cry aloud for help.

Lew Wallace

#34. When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,
you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

Toba Beta

#35. I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before - a lost girl crying out to me for help. I just noticed too late.

Ashley D. Wallis

#36. When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget ... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Katherine Paterson

#37. Crying can help, too. People are often afraid to cry because they are told that crying is for babies. Crying does not make you a baby, no matter what anyone says. There are times when people feel so bad that they can't express their feelings in words. At those times, crying helps.

James Howe

#38. The Room is a drama that is also a comedy that is also an existential cry for help that is finally a testament to human endurance.

Greg Sestero

#39. Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

#40. A lot of readers have actually helped me, been really sweet to me ... So maybe my cry for help has sometimes been answered.

Jonathan Ames

#41. A shout for help isn't always a cry of pain; sometimes it is a hymn of praise.

Joyce Rachelle

#42. We have this exploding prison population. We have the equivalent of martial law on a day-to-day, 24/7-hour basis in our cities, because we have not heard the cry for help by young people in 1967.

Grace Lee Boggs