A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

You know that bank I used to cry all the way to? I bought it.