“It is tears that have got us through the darkest days and hardest times. Our tears have brought us to a better understanding of ourselves.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Weeping is not the same thing as crying, It takes your whole body to weep, and when it’s over, you feel like you don’t have any bones left to hold you up.”— Sarah Ockler, 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
“Let it be enough that the world looks alive when it’s wet and so much living is most beautiful when it’s dying.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“Once, someone told me I have a small heart. Whenever I weep I press the moment like a garlic clove— I want to feel, good God I want to feel, to see how everything alive becomes a landscape.”— Bryce Emley, narrativemagazine.com
“… And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth’s only furrow.”— Pablo Neruda, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“And he thinks he begins to cry, but he is unable to produce tears. Everything has gone so wrong, he thinks; how did everything go so wrong?”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com