35 Quotes About Crying

Emotions are an intrinsic part of the human experience, and among the myriad ways we express them, crying holds a unique significance. Whether it’s a tear shed in solitude or a cathartic release shared among friends, crying transcends language and culture to become a universal symbol of vulnerability and strength. In our curated collection of the top 35 quotes about crying, we delve into the profound and diverse ways in which tears have been immortalized in words. These quotes capture the essence of what it means to embrace our emotions, offering comfort, insight, and perhaps a sense of solidarity to those who have ever felt the transformative power of tears. Join us as we explore how poets, thinkers, and public figures have reflected on this emotive act and the myriad reasons that make us weep.

1. “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

2. “Consider anything, only don’t cry!” - Lewis Carroll

3. “We need never be ashamed of our tears.” - Charles Dickens

4. “When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.” - Lemony Snicket

5. “Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.” - Chuck Palahniuk

6. “Chuck Norris’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried.” - Ian Spector

7. “Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

8. “There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.” - Shannon Hale

9. “He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.” - Gustave Flaubert

10. “Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.” - C.S. Lewis

11. “Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.” - Lauren Conrad

12. “A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.” - Margaret Peterson Haddix

13. “It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.” - Alexander Lowen

14. “Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.” - Murasaki Shikibu

15. “So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?” - Charlotte Brontë

16. “Sooo, I'm tired of people thinking I'm a freak. I know you can't relate to that but -""Get over it already, will ya?" Candace stood. "You're not Smellody anymore. You're pretty. You can get hot guys now. Tanned ones with good vision. Not geeky hose jousters." She shut the window. "Don't you ever want to use your lips as something other than veneer protectors?"Melody felt a familiar pinch behind her eyes. Her throat dried. Her eyes burned. And then they came. Like salty little paratroopers, tears descended en masse. She hated Candace thought she had never made out with a boy. But how could she convince a seventeen-year-old with more dates than a fruitcake that Randy the Starbucks cashier (aka Scarbucks, because of his acne scars) was a great kisser? She couldn't.” - Lisi Harrison

17. “Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.” - Alice Hoffman

18. “Abby wouldn't want you to suffer because of some jerk that kidnapped her. She would want you to go on your trip so that she would have fun torturing you for not being a puddle on the ground with a box of tissues and an empty gallon of ice cream by your side. Then afterwards to hit you for thinking she was seriously hoping you would be doing that.” - Ottilie Weber

19. “What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?” - Cassandra Clare

20. “Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.” - Jean Rhys

21. “I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam!― they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

22. “As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

23. “I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

24. “I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.” - Taylor Swift

25. “No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.” - J.K. Rowling

26. “He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.” - Amy Lane

27. “I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.” - Veronica Roth

28. “Those we love are the only ones worth crying over.” - Allie Brennan

29. “There was a lot of pain in that kiss. There was so much hurt and so much fear in it. I felt tears rolling down the both of our faces. But, in that kiss, there was even more want. We both wanted to smother out that pain, to not have so many horrible things in the all too recent past, to just be normal, to do the types of things we were supposed to be dealing with besides death and disability.” - Keary Taylor

30. “There should be no crying in copyediting.” - Carol Fisher Saller

31. “I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying” - Rowan Atkinson

32. “He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.” - Haruki Murakami

33. “Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge.” - Reiko Saibara

34. “A man need not be ashamed of moist eyes when he gazes on the face of some loved one who is far away. It's human. It shows a kindly heart, an impressionable mind!("The Doomed Man")” - Dick Donovan

35. “I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.” - Susan Abulhawa