These scream quotes will inspire you. Scream, give a long, loud, piercing cry or cries expressing excitement, great emotion, or pain.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging scream quotes, scream sayings, and scream proverbs.
Best Scream Quotes
- “When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.” ~ John Lennon
- “Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I always feel better after a good scream.” ~ Helena Bonham Carter
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“Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.” ~ Mark Twain
- “It’s not wrong to be upset. It’s not wrong to cry. It’s not wrong to want attention. It’s not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.” ~ Bryant H. McGill
- “Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I scream, you scream, we all scream… for the truth.” ~ Stephen Colbert
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“In space, no one can hear you scream.” ~ Johan Harstad
- “What started as a whisper
Slowly turned into a scream
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen
I don’t know where you came from
And I don’t know where you’ve gone
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn” ~ Ben Harper - “It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.” ~ Rosanne Cash
- “Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.” ~ Iris Murdoch
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“I have no mouth. And I must scream.” ~ Harlan Ellison
- “You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn” ~ Alanis Morissette
- “When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.” ~ Will Rogers , Want to scream quotes
- “In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream.” ~ Yakir Aharonov
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“I was walking along the road with two friends. The sunset. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red… I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.” ~ Edvard Munch
- “Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn’t going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says ‘war’ just once again, I’ll go in the house and slam the door.” ~ Vivien Leigh
- “You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours – as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “In my own life, I have no problems letting out a good scream.” ~ Sofia Vergara
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“The work of art is a scream of freedom.” ~ Christopher Lasch
- “Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician’s ear: ‘You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'” ~ Wendy McElroy
- “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” ~ William Tecumseh Sherman
- “Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.” ~ Seth Godin
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“It’s hard for me to be serious. I can’t really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I’m three feet tall, basically.” ~ Janelle Monae
- “I sing because I’ve forgotten how to scream.” ~ Harry Connick, Jr.
- “Movies don’t create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.” ~ Skeet Ulrich
- “And I exist, I roam but I don’t sleep anymore
I cry, laugh, scream but I don’t remember why.” ~ Katerina Gogou -
“Where can you scream? It’s a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?” ~ R. D. Laing
- “Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?” ~ Ernesto Sabato
- “Dear Hip Hop, we can’t scream ‘murder, misogyny, lawlessness’ in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.” ~ LeCrae
- “He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren’t bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath.” ~ Jeaniene Frost
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“You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.” ~ Temple Grandin
- “I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice’s argument that you can’t scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.” ~ Larry Flynt
- “I think now it’s the money who tells the artist what to do – it’s not the artist who tells the money what to do. And things move very fast, which is hard, because sometimes you need more time to be creative. I guess no one has a loud mouth like I did. They don’t dare to scream loudly what they think. But you can’t take fashion too seriously. The whole thing is about giving the woman who wears your clothes some power, some fun, some service. It’s great to make it as art. But first, it’s a service for someone.” ~ Thierry Mugler
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“The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.” ~ Lord Byron
- “I think that I originally became an actor because I was super, super dramatic. Over the top, all the time. I was the kid that would bump my knee and scream and cry as if I’d been shot in the face. So just automatically, the only outlet for my drama was acting and I loved theater.” ~ Alanna Masterson
- “Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
- “Life is truly a ride. We’re all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he’s ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair’s messed, you’re out of breath, and you didn’t throw up.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld
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“Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.” ~ Diablo Cody
- “Music at its best…is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions and yearnings as prisoners of time. Profound music leads us–beyond language–to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.” ~ Cornel West
- “I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don’t edit. If they think it, they say it…Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you’re a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.” ~ Chris Crutcher
- “Everybody’s always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they’d rile me. I’d yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.” ~ Lewis Black
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“I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I’ll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!” ~ Josh Groban
- “why can’t you see i’m a kid’, said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don’t cuddle? Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle? Why do you scream when I do what I did? Im a kid.” ~ Shel Silverstein
- “Again, with two small children it’s incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you’re just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.” ~ Jo Brand
- “Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.” ~ Dave Matthews
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“I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.” ~ Beyonce Knowles
- “I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out. I think I’ll miss all that when it’s taken away.” ~ Shahrukh Khan
- “A ‘scream’ is always just that – a noise and not music.” ~ Carl Jung”There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.” ~ William James
- “From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you’re in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.” ~ Mark Hoppus
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“Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they’ve got worse.” ~ Tom Hodgkinson
- “Closing my eyes and holding still. It’s the end if I get mad or scream. It’s close to a prayer. Hate is not for humans. Judgment lies with God. That’s what I learned from my Arabic brothers and sisters.” ~ Kenji Goto
- “Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.” ~ Chris Cornell
- “A doctor once told me that with crying you aren’t sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don’t cry: you scream, you try to run. When it’s over and you’re OK, that’s when you cry.” ~ Bill Viola
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“Do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don’t.” ~ Forrest Griffin
- “The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “When Slenderman screams, the world will end.” ~ Jack Goldstein
- “Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,–why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?” ~ Pietro Metastasio
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“In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.” ~ H. P. Lovecraft
- “Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth.” ~ Edmondo De Amicis
- “I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.” ~ Kay WalkingStick
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“Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.” ~ Camille Claudel
- “It’s somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It’s not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can’t control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I’m happy with that. Push the book. That doesn’t mean that my personality or writing style changes.” ~ David Bergen
- “As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.” ~ Zola Jesus
