Weeping Quotes

• Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

  Thomas Paine

  Nature, Blood, Voice

  Thomas Paine, Bruce Kuklick (2000). “Paine: Political Writings”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

  Anne Rice

  Happiness, Laughter, Perfect

  Anne Rice (1995). “Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches”

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• A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

  John Eldredge

  Healing, Acknowledgement, Wounded

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.

  Rumi

  Heart, World, Whole

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• Jesus wept, but He never complained.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus

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  Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.

  Socrates

  Want

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• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

  Ovid

  Grief, Tears, Satisfaction

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• Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brother, Children, Childhood

  'The Cry of the Children' (1844) st. 1

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• To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

  William Shakespeare

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Grief

  1592 Richard. Henry VI PartThree, act 2, sc.1, l.85-6.

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• Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

  Anne Bronte

  Tired, Heart, Eye

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.169, The Floating Press

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• For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Fairy, Empty Souls

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Hurt, Pain

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Love, Sad, Happy

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2015

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• 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.

  Samuel Beckett

  Somewhere Else, Laughing, Tears

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

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• My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Heart, Sleep, Tears

  "The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre, and Other Poems". Book by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, 1829.

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• They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

  Euripides

  Tears, Sweetness

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion”, p.105, University of Chicago Press

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• Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

  Thomas S. Monson

  God, Religious, Women

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• There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

  Ovid

  Cry, Pleasure, Certain

  Ovid (1879). “Ovid”

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

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Causes, Cry

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 2, sc. 4, l. [279]

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• The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.

  Du Fu

  Clouds, Voice, Answers

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• I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fashion, Animal, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.325, Penguin UK

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• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

  Publilius Syrus

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Joy

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 1, sc. 1, l. [27]

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