“And now I cry in the middle of the night for the same damn thing.”
Because Of You
Lyrics, Breakaway (2004)
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American singer-songwriter, actress 1982Related quotes
“Don't cry. The damned don't cry.”
Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature
Page 253.
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Knocked Out Loaded (1986), Brownsville Girl (with Sam Shepard)
Alicia Garza (1981) Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter International movement
How the movement that’s changing America was built and where it goes next, By Jamil Smith, Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/black-lives-matter-jamil-smith-1014442/ (16 June 2020)
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0-06-091127-1 , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.
1925 - 1945
Variant: I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
Return to Tipasa (1954)
Variant translation: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
As translated in Lyrical and Critical Essays (1968), p. 169; also in The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism (1969) by Nathan A. Scott, p. 116
