#crying

"...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit."

"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears."

"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."

"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."

"God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us."

"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."

"No - no - no!"someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."

"Love is like a door knob that I’ve mistaken for a shower handle, and I’m trying to turn up the heat on our relationship, but the handle won’t turn and I’ve got shampoo in my eyes and my wetsuit is dry and I started crying just as the zookeeper asked me to leave."

"I remember I laughed so hard I cried. But my response was half appropriate, because I was at a funeral."

"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."

"Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now."

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

"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."

"Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you."

"I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying."

"God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again."

"Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that’s how I knew she was deeply affected."

"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow."

"He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much."

"I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby."