“I am slowly learning how to laugh and cry and feel through it all, how to welcome the confusion and the joy that comes with loving, and living, and breaking.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“Every once in a while, she’ll get worked up and cry like that. But that’s OK. She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all. Sometimes I’m so desperate to touch, to be touched, to feel, that I’m almost certain I’m going to fall off…”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“When he cries in front of you, it’s basically him saying he trusts you with his life and everything in it.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“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, amazon.com
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“There are thousands out there who are looking for someone like you, why should you keep on crying for that bloody motherfucker who doesn't deserve you and your love?”— Michael Bassey Johnson, amazon.com
“But you can’t feel bad every second, I wanted to tell her. Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn’t mean you don’t care, or that you’ve forgotten. It just means you’re human.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“Love is refusing to bring up the past, even if doing so would be a slam dunk to prove your point. Love is your hand wiping away my tears, trying to erase streaks of mascara. Love is the warm hug that extinguishes an argument.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“Sometimes you cry for no good reason, and you feel sorry for yourself, and you look in the mirror and you don't recognize the girl looking back at you.”— Lisa Gardner, amazon.com
“I see your eyes, I see how they have wept, and how you come retreating all undone; my heart is touched and shaken at the sight.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com
“Being in a relationship is cool but have you ever looked in the mirror while you're crying?”— Josh Peck, twitter.com
“I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”— Dr. Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“You are entitled to your emotions. You are entitled to them the way you should eat and brush your teeth thrice a day. You are entitled to cry.”— Grace Marie Hernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“Even strong women are vulnerable. Strong women cry, they regret, they wonder, they imagine. Their strength doesn’t make them incapable of feeling.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“Ask your doctor why bad things happen to good people. Ask your doctor why it all has to be this way. Sob on your doctor's shoulder.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Experiencing pain because someone you love(d) is no longer a person you can call at 2 AM when you can’t sleep is not weakness. Crying when you come across old photographs and the memories hit you like a slap in the face is not weakness. Missing someone who you cared for is not weakness.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com