“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, 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
“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
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, esquire.com
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.”— Washington Irving, goodreads.com
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning to do afterward.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“If you’re complaining about him every day and crying over him every night, then it’s time for you to find someone new. Someone it doesn’t hurt to love.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.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
“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
“My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.”— Mahogany SilverRain, amazon.com
“You can’t have the bubbles and sparkles without the intense depths from which they surface. You can’t have the light and laughter without the darkness and the tears. You can’t have the in-love-with-life-ness without the parts of me that question the point of any of it, the parts that don’t belong an…”— Stephenie Zamora, 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
“There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.”— Max Brooks, amazon.com
“You have grown so much because you have quietly realized you aren't just teardrops. You are an ocean.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on.”— Rachel Thompson, amazon.com