I Tried Not To Cry Quotes

#1. It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed
the two bridemaids were duly inferior
her father gave her away
her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated
her aunt tried to cry
and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant.

Jane Austen

#2. She shoved open her car door and moved to get out. Instead she dropped her head to the steering wheel. She tried to pull the tough-girl mask over her sorrow and get on with her life. Instead she cried like adults learn to cry; silently and alone.

Ann Wertz Garvin

#3. She tried to shriek for help, to cry out against the blinding agony, but her mouth wouldn't open. The scream stalled in her throat and she gagged. Oh my God. She couldn't move her lips. She couldn't say one word.

Meryl Sawyer

#4. She tried to compose herself then, with several deep breaths. I gave her as long as she needed, all the while mentally designing my tombstone. R.I.P, Captain Abraham R. Griswold. He was completely useless and made girls cry.

Lia Habel

#5. Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.

Rob Bell

#6. [There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

Juliette Lewis

#7. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

Victor Hugo

#8. I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.'
'Now you've lived to tell the tale.

Cameron Stracher

#9. No! He tried to shout out but the water surged into his mouth and lungs choking his cry. Then darkness. And nothingness. Always the nothingness. Thicker this time as if it had fingers pulling him down and pulling the life out of him. Pulling his soul out of him.

James L. Rubart

#10. When she finally realized her mother was dead, she tried to scream for help. But the cry remained locked in her throat, refusing to comply, and all that escaped her lips was the silent air forcefully expelled from her lungs.

Chad P. Brown

#11. Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.

Scarlett Johansson

#12. What I've seen around the world is if the regulatory desires are combined with things that affect consumer behavior - such as in Europe, they tax gasoline very heavily - you do get people to move to very fuel efficient cars; trade off bigger vs. smaller cars.

Rick Wagoner

#13. Okay, to be fair, I had tried to Google-stalk him. But Google-stalking is a far cry from having your demonblood best friend park his vampmobile across the and use his x-ray vamp vision to spy into someone's house. That's just rude.

Cecily White

#14. Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

Jimmy Smith

#15. Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.

James Baldwin

#16. I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.

Elijah Wood

#17. So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

Tupac Shakur

#18. Oh, Mr. Trout," nice Milo went on, there in Trout's suite, "teach us to sing and dance and laugh and cry. We've tried to survive so long on money and sex and envy and real estate and football and basketball and automobiles and television and alcohol - on sawdust and broken glass!

Anonymous

#19. The waves of time wash us all clean.

Colin Baker

#20. He tried not to cry as he wondered if he would ever have a home again.

KayeC Jones

#21. His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would be mystified to discover.

Kevin Wilson

#22. I've never told anyone about that letter," he said quietly. "I know," Thomas replied. "If you had, you'd be dead.

Ken Follett

#23. Now I shall spy on beauty as none has Spied on it yet. Now I shall cry out as None has cried out. Now I shall try what none Has tried. Now I shall do what none has done.

Vladimir Nabokov

#24. I tried to make a 'When Doves Cry' in a rap version. I used a lot of instruments and I broke it down like I thought Prince would do, and that's the song I sent to Big Boi.

Chuck Inglish

#25. I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.

Brian Posehn

#26. On the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she'd cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile of bare feet and dandelions and sundress.

Holly Black

#27. I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.

Thom Yorke

#28. I tried to think of what an actual human would say in this situation. I asked, "Are you okay?" Sofia began to cry, which was exactly why I generally tried to avoid being a human.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all in all a joyous experience. To me, the key to directing, to be honest, is just surround yourself with brilliant people and let them do their thing

Dan Mazer

#30. I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.

Jim C. Hines

#31. I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something ... set yourself on something ... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

Stephen King

#32. Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Bill Veeck

#33. A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

William Soutar

#34. It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware of something in her life, the situation just got worse. Consequently it was up to her to solve her problems by herself, using whatever methods she deemed necessary.

Stieg Larsson

#35. Don't be sorry;
Don't you cry.
It's enough
That you tried.
I love you,
And that won't change.
It's not your fault
Things worked out this way

Margo T. Rose

#36. You didn't see him watching you dance with your dad. His eyes got all shiny. I thought he was going to cry. And on the way up here, in the elevator, he tried to play it off, but I could totally tell he was nervous.

Sylvia Day