Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Crying

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) Italian Poet, Philosopher

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) American Playwright, Poet, Novelist

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, 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 (Daniel Handler) (b.1970) American Novelist

He does not weep who does not see.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–83) American Journalist, Author

I cannot bear it! said the pewter soldier. I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least be a change. I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one’s old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–75) Danish Author, Poet, Short Story Writer

A woman wears her tears like jewelry.
Unknown

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist

I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State

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 (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.
Philibert Joseph Roux (1780–1854) French Surgeon

Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I’ll weep.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.
Philibert Joseph Roux (1780–1854) French Surgeon

Lips that taste of tears, they say,
Are the best for kissing.
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American Humorist, Journalist

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right – instantly.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian Author, Humorist, Jurist

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) Irish Novelist, Playwright

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one’s around to observe them.
Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (c.4 BCE–65 CE) Roman Stoic Philosopher, Statesman, Tragedian

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) American Poet, Essayist, Librarian

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 (1812–70) English Novelist

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men – at least they can cry.
Jean Rhys (1890–1979) British Novelist, Short-story Writer

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Theologian

Tears such as angels weep.
John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet

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