“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.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all... a day... an hour.”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com
“Let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”— Shannon Hale, amazon.com
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“What was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”— Brian Jacques, amazon.com
“When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those ey…”— Chase Brooks, amazon.com
“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived.…”— Katie McGarry, amazon.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. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“You know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”— C.S. Lewis, amazon.com
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”— Santosh Kalwar, amazon.com