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Emotional expression Quotes

"People cry not because they’re weak, it’s because they’ve been strong for too long."

"The individual who perceives oppressive emotional states in himself and is able to verbalize them in a style congruent with the semantic impact of archetypal-imagery shifts the balance of integrative power within himself from the unconscious to the ego."

"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres, and the like, but equations for the human emotions."

"Some people say never let them see you cry. I say if you're so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone"

"Write hard and clear about what hurts"

"You have to be vulnerable to be emotional in front of anybody"

"Someone begging for their humanity to be acknowledged can sound an awful lot like rage"

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you"

"Though you may hear me holler, and you may see me cry I'll be dogged, sweet baby, if you gonna see me die"

"The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise."

"The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs"

"I say if you're so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone"

"I like not only to be loved but also to be told I am loved"

"Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover"

"Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them."

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