Crying Quotes

“Don't cry, my love.' She carefully wiped his tears with her fingers. 'I'm all right.

She gave him a wobbly smile.

His eyes went wide and as blue as a clear sky after a storm.

'How is this...' he trailed off.

It was a little endearing to watch. His sulky mouth gently parted as he seemed to forget how to speak.

'I already told you. You are the love of my life.
You are mine, Jacks of the Hollow. And you're not going to be the end of me.'

'But you were dying.'

'No,' she said, a little embarrassed. 'I just forgot to breathe.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Little Fox!' Jacks lashed his arms against his captors as he screamed and cursed everyone in the cavern. 'Little Fox, I'm sorry.' His tortured voice echoed towards the sky.

The broken sound of it would have made Evangeline cry if she wasn't already. She wanted to tell him not to worry, she wanted to tell him again that it would be all right- but just in cast it wasn't, she called, 'I love you!”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Cuando cruzamos el umbral, siento que algo se hincha en mi interior; es más que ira, más que miedo, más que cualquier cosa que hayan intentado inculcarnos, es un sentimiento de pertenencia… de que formamos parte de algo más grande que nosotras. ¿Acaso no es eso lo que todas andábamos buscando?
Puede que no tengamos magia, pero tenemos poder.”
― Kim Liggett, The Grace Year

“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“But her smile is vacant. Placid. A Stepford Wife smile. The tears fall but there is nothing behind them. She’s a mannequin crying on command.”
― Tania De Rozario, Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

“This your car?’ Jade asks him back, wiping her face, finally breathing, and breathing too much now, too deep, like she’s about to just collapse into a girl-shaped column of tears and wishes.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“you've made me shiny, laura. thank you for making me shiny.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“I wanted to beg her pardon and to cling to her, but my hands were
dirty from my work in the fields”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“The sensuality of her grief, thawing. Her power coming into focus, still so chaotic inside her. I love the way she splurged on this hedonistic indulgence: a public cascade of tears. Not sobbing, not beaten, just allowing the ocean inside to surge and be visible, palpable, wet.”
― Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

“Listen babe scars will never go away no matter how trying chill, as it raise painful memory work on turn it into a sweet scars to put smile on your face and others instead of crying.”
― Nozipho N Maphumulo

“Amara, don't cry! You're too touch to cry."
"You're right, girl, you're right. But even tough girls cry sometimes. Lick Chicho says, we cry to get stronger." - Ruthie and Amara”
― Ruth Behar, Lucky Broken Girl

“Amara, don't cry. You're too tough to cry."
"Your right, girl, you're right. But even tough girls cry sometimes. Like Chicho say, we cry to get stronger." -Ruthie and Amara”
― Ruth Behar, Lucky Broken Girl

“The girl in the mirror is crying.
She looks shaken - lost.
The girl in the mirror is crying.
'I can't find myself,' she says to me.
The girl in the mirror is crying.
'I can't help you,' I reply back.”
― Vanessa de Largie, Don't Hit Me!

“Water is pristine (I cry),
when transparent it remains,
clean it falls right off the sky,
soft or heavy (with my pain).

Soft it falls,
when the drops are small,
heavy fall the larger balls -
numerous the drops that fall…”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“A right to be possessed her, as if she’d just finished crying after being born. How? How to stretch birth out for a whole lifetime?”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“She stared with sudden suspicion at Frances. "You haven't been weeping, have you? Music can be fatal.”
― Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“Crying is not weak. Tears are there for a reason. To allow us to release the tension and pain we have inside. You have been strong for so long, trying to keep all those tears hidden.”
― Yve Vale, Hexed

“You realize your inner strength when you continue to smile, even when you feel like breaking down and crying.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“I’ve been crying for an hour, I think I have lost 3 pounds since I began crying.”
― Kenan Hudaverdi, Emotional Rhapsody

“I have cried so much this year that I've almost drowned. So when you see me smile don't think I'm no longer in the water-- understand that my joy is a lifejacket.”
― Elisabet Velasquez

“I never cry at the normal stuff. I cry if So You Think You Can Dance doesn't record on the DVR, or if a boy I shared my first kiss with has gone weird on me. But even then, I don't cry instantly. It wells up, pools under my skin, creates a clot. And then I'll, like, spill potato chips all over the kitchen floor, and the clot will break open and I'll cry over Ruffles, but not real life.”
― Tim Federle, Nate Expectations

“Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? "We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.”
― Adam Levin, The Instructions

“It was Julia’s theory that if one cried in public, one would catch a cold. It wasn’t so much retribution for the display of emotion as it was the irritation of mucous membranes in the presence of foreign germs.”
― Anita Shreve

“What could a person do, after realizing they are not enough despite having poured out all their energy and love? What could they do except lie on the ground and weep?”
― Molly Ringle, Ballad for Jasmine Town

“In the case of eye irritation, enhanced tearing washes away or dilutes the irritating substance. The importance of emotionally induced tears is poorly understood.”
― Marieb Elaine N. Hoehn Katja

“Do you remember me the way I remember you” - Ella”
― Tahereh Mafi

“I want to break this house with sobs.”
― Deema K. Shehabi

“It was easier to cry alone. No people or mirrors to bear witness.
Ethan sobbed into his fist, the swell of pointlessness and frustration bursting a dam in his throat. The exhaust fan drowned out the sound. Ethan wanted to scream, to manifest some tangible evidence of the shredding hurt.
He managed a few croaky gasps, the sound withering like rot. Even encased in solitude and steam, it felt performative.”
― Frances Wren

“Whales should have solar panels on their backs. That would make them more fuel efficient, and it would also stop them from crying outside my window every night.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“There’s no product that can make you glow from within, and no potion aside from tears. Feeling the gut-hurt of life and letting it roll down your face is the only way.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir