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Quotes About Crying

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
~ Guy Finley
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He loved three things in this life: Vespers, white peacocks, And old maps of America, Didn't love children crying, Raspberries with tea, Or feminine hysteria ...And I was his wife.
~ Anna Akhmatova
They'd jumped into one of the waiting taxis, and as it pulled out of the car park Nikki started crying. 'Right. Calm down, you.' Julie handed Nikki a tissue. 'It's alright. Nothing's going to happen.
~ Anna Smith
Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.
~ Anne Enright
I'm old enough to remember the days when you actually missed your favourite programme. Missed it. And cried. Possibly because you were a child, but not always.
~ Sarah Millican
The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.
~ Ann Coulter
She began to cry—she cried and cried. I rushed out and found her mother's maid, and we locked the door and got her into a cold bath.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?
~ James Caan
The one piece of advice I would give to all girlfriends - or guy friends, too, I guess - is that if you're going to have a fight in a Baja Fresh parking lot, make sure one of you has an available pair of sunglasses because whoever is crying is going to want to wear them.
~ Jessica St. Clair
I was at Home Depot with my dad looking for paint when I got the call to open for Taylor Swift. That was wild, because I was crying in Home Depot, and people were looking at me funny.
~ Charlie Worsham
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party.
~ Gwen Moore
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
~ J. D. Salinger
I remember when we were going to release 'Dancing On My Own,' and I went into the record label crying to them that I was terrified people wouldn't support me anymore if they knew I was gay.
~ Calum Scott
A]nd the wizened youth trembles more and more violently, wrinkles his nose and then pounces on the story. But only I know the story, the real story. And it is simple and cruel and true and it should make us laugh, it should make us die laughing. But we only know how to cry, the only thing we do wholeheartedly is cry.
~ Roberto Bolano
Everything's over, I thought. I felt rested, I'm home, I have lots to do. When I sat up in bed, though, all I did was start to cry like a fool, for no apparent reason.
~ Roberto Bolano
I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Your big scary husband is crying.
~ Robyn Carr
Crying will release the sorrowful thoughts on the mind.
~ Robyn Carr
Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.
~ Lois Lowry
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, What did I say? What did I say? What did I say? asked Ivan indignantly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Tears, she had once been told, were designed to eliminate toxins, and they poured down her face and slimed her neck and gathered in the recesses of her collarbones and she had to be careful never to lie back and let them get into her ears, which might cause the toxins to return and start over. Of course, the rumor of toxins turned out not to be true. Tears were quite pure.
~ Lorrie Moore