“And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.” SometimesDreamPastNightLanguageMemoriesCryMetsGoldTablesMy FavoriteBoxesHeavyConfusedChemistryTransitionMetalsOperaTransformedManhattanTinGridsPlatinumPeriodic TableValued Friends Author:Oliver Sacks
“My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as if all these ordeals have toughened me. When I go out in the street, sometimes women in the neighborhood call to me, congratulating me and shouting ‘Mabrouk!’ – a word once tainted by evil memories, but which I know like to hear again. And shouted by women I don’t even know! I blush, but deep down I’m so proud.” IfsKnowsFeelsSometimesDreamEvilMemoriesStreetsCryChangedProudStrongerStartingDivorceNeighborhoodGoing AwayDeep DownShoutingChanged My LifeOrdealsTaintedBad Dream Book:I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced Source: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
“The mind has so many pictures Why can't I sleep with my eyes open? The mind has so many memories Can you remember what it looks like when I cry? I'm trying, trying to tell you All that I can in a sweet and velvet tongue But no words ever could sell you Sell you on me after all that I have done.” TryingMindLooksI CanDoneEyeRememberMemoriesSleepCrySweetSellsTongueVelvet Author:Rufus Wainwright
“I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.” ThinkingFeelingsCertainMemoriesCryCome UpIntenseTherapeutic Author:Tig Notaro
“When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.” IfsTryingLittlesMadeCharacterUseRememberUsedOrderBitsMemoriesTeacherCryTearsSceneCreatingLittle BitTheaterRemember Something Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.” IfsLittlesRememberMemoriesCryDespairPhotographImpressionSurvivingStirring Author:W. G. Sebald
“I think the show has so many wonderful memories connected to it for lots of people. When fans come to see me at the Andy Griffith Museum they get so emotional. Some of them cry, lots of them hug me and some want a kiss on the cheek.” PeopleThinkingWantShowsMemoriesWonderfulFansCryEmotionalKissingConnectedMuseumsCheeksHugHug MeWonderful Memories Author:Betty Lynn