Cry Quotes

• If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.3, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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  Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sad, Stay Strong, Tears

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 29, 2011

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• When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

  Tony Campolo

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Matter

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

  Thomas Fuller

  Life, Complaining, Born

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  Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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

  Veronica Roth

  Inspirational, Laughter, Feel Better

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• A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Taken, Eye

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Break Up, Giving Up, Want

  "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

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• The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Death, Justice, Owners

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). “Diplomatic Immunity”, p.60, Baen Books

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• I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.

  Ray Liotta

  Laughing, Want, Feels

  "“Narc” Interview: Ray Liotta". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

  Zac Efron

  Guy, Tears, Sometimes

  "What I know about women..." by Zac Efron, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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• The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

  Martin Landau

  Real, Laughing, Comedian

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• There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Tears

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• My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

  Roberto Benigni

  Laughing, Trying, Cinema

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

  Jeanne Calment

  Laughing, Mascara

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• The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

  Eddie Murphy

  Kids, Want, Emotion

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• Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

  William Kennedy

  Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

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• It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  People, Promise, Accomplished

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• 'Never again' is the rallying cry for all who believe that mankind must speak out against genocide.

  Jon Corzine

  Believe, Speaks Out, Rallying Cry

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• This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Glowing, Uprising, Generations

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• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Commitment, Culture

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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