“Never be afraid to cry. Sometimes, nothing can cleanse the heart more than a few wet tears.”— Donald L. Hicks, amazon.com
“Tears release endorphins in the mind that help sooth and comfort. They cleanse the eyes and relieve stress, thereby lowering blood pressure and taking strain off of the heart. He created you with tears and nothing he created is bad. Those tears you are holding in are necessary, Emma. Let them fall,…”— Quinn Loftis, amazon.com
“Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Maybe there in a set amount of crying your body needs to deal with any trauma. There’s a certain water-level of tears you need to shed until you can find acceptance or move on or whatever. And, if you don’t cry them out, they just catch up with you.”— Holly Bourne, amazon.com
“They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith.”— Andrew Galasetti, amazon.com
“I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.”— Janice Galloway, amazon.com
“Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.”— Veronica Roth, 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