17 quotes about Cries and Crying

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.

— Beckett, Samuel

Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!

— Byron, Lord

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

— Byron, Lord

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

— Dante (Alighieri)

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

— Dickens, Charles

I cry every chance I get.

— Gere, Richard

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

— Heine, Heinrich

Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in.

— Hook, Dr.

He does not weep who does not see.

— Hugo, Victor

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

— Moore, Thomas

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labor to overcome the cloud that loads em.

— Otway, Thomas

Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

— Rich, Adrienne

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

— Roux, Joseph

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

— Sade, Marquis De

I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.

— Shakespeare, William

Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us.

— Unknown, Source

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

— Wilde, Oscar