Quotations about Crying

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. ~Henry Maudsley


When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Kahlil Gibran


Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. ~Eileen Mayhew


Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut


Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1860


The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney


Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. ~Christian Nevell Bovee


Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. ~Natalie Clifford Barney


Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water. ~Antoine Rivarol


To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth


It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. ~Ovid


Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. ~Golda Meir


Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it. ~Albert Smith


Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)


Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Tears are Summer showers to the soul. ~Alfred Austin, Savonarola


Lips that taste of tears, they say, Are the best for kissing. ~Dorothy Parker

Tears are the silent language of grief. ~Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary


Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. ~Steel Magnolias


What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. ~Jewish Proverb


The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea. ~Isak Dinesen


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


It is such a secret place, the land of tears. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince