55 Motivational Quotes About Crying

In life's journey, tears are often seen as a symbol of vulnerability, pain, or sorrow. Yet, the act of crying carries a profound, transformative power that transcends mere emotion. Whether it's shedding tears of joy, release from deep-seated emotions, or finding strength in vulnerability, crying can be a potent motivational force. In this collection of 55 motivational quotes, we explore the multifaceted beauty of tears and their remarkable ability to inspire resilience and personal growth. These words of wisdom will illuminate the path towards embracing your emotions, reminding you that every tear shed can be a step closer to victory over life's challenges.

1. “ — This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.— Who knows it better?— Yet you believe? Kumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret. Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering. There is my wife, and you, my friend, and these people who welcomed me, and the child who is so eager to be with us here in Ndotsheni – so in my suffering I can believe.— I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering, umfundisi. For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.Kumalo looked at his friend with joy. You are a preacher, he said.” - Alan Paton

2. “You can cry until there's nothing wet left in you. You can scream and curse until your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray all you want, to whatever god you think will listen, and still it makes no difference. It goes on with no sign as to when it might release you, and you know that if it ever did relent, it would not be because it cared. ” - John Vasquez

3. “I love the Lord, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live. (Psalms 116:1-2 NIV)” - Anonymous

4. “People can cry much easier than they can change.” - James Baldwin

5. “At some point, I had to start laughing, because I was all wrung out from crying.” - Julie Metz

6. “I am not made for despair” - Lian Hearn

7. “When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.” - Alanis Morissette

8. “Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision. Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy. Trust, even when your heart begs you not to. Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see. Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring. Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.” - Alysha Speer

9. “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

10. “And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them?” - Mervyn Peake

11. “What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.” - Sylvia Plath

12. “Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.” - Erich Segal

13. “Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.” - Judith McNaught

14. “An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend tokeep.” - Judith McNaught

15. “But he knew instinctively what he suggested was impossible. She'd been through so much, and held her tears back for so long, that Royce doubted that anything could force her to shed them.” - Judith McNaught

16. “You stay safe, You love. You survive. You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed. You Push.” - Carrie Ryan

17. “She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.” - Lisi Harrison

18. “When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.” - William Shakespeare

19. “If we didn't have strong feelings, how could we love or fight? When our flesh is cut, we bleed. When our heart is broken, we cry. There's nothing wrong with that. It only becomes a problem when it gets in the way of what you have to do. You can't crumble when others are counting on you.” - Robert Liparulo

20. “Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve.” - Santosh Kalwar

21. “I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” - Santosh Kalwar

22. “No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life.""Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes."Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?” - P.C. Cast

23. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” - Steve Maraboli

24. “God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.” - Joshilyn Jackson

25. “I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks.” - Verb.” - Pablo Neruda

26. “Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.” - Haruki Murakami

27. “Life is an onion - you peel it year by year and sometimes cry.” - Carl Sandburg

28. “Day after day you find a way to make this grown man cry.” - Keith Urban

29. “It's rally bad when dads cry.” - Sarah Ockler

30. “The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted, let yourself go and you started embellishing your own sobs.” - Richard Yates

31. “Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.” - Jane Austen

32. “Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.” - Jeannette Walls

33. “You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.” - Jodi Picoult

34. “When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?That long?” - Osayi Osar-Emokpae

35. “Crying doesn't make you weak. There's sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go.” - Sahana Epari

36. “And tonight I'm feelin like an astronaut, sending sos from this tiny box,and i lost the signal when i lifted off, now i'm stuck up here and the world forgot, can i please come down? Cuz i'm tired of drifting round and round....can i please come down? Now I lie awake and scream in my zero gravity...and its starting to weigh down on me....lets abort this mission now....CAN I PLEASE COME DOWN? So tonight I'm calling all the astronauts, all the lonely people that the world forgot, if you hear my voice, come pick me up, cuz ur all i've got...” - Simple Plan

37. “I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to and trying to help. I'm overdosing on the trauma of others, while still barely healing from my own.I cry for hour at home and have fitful nights of little sleep. My nightmares resurface as my own pain is repeated to me, magnified a thousand times. It feels insurmountable. How can you save everyone? How can you rescue them? How do you get over your pain? How do you ever feel normal?” - Rachel Lloyd

38. “We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see.” - Nadège Richards

39. “I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.” - Win Butler

40. “Anger was better than weeping.” - Sophie Page

41. “No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.” - Anthony Liccione

42. “You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.” - Kiera Cass

43. “She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.” - Kat Rosenfield

44. “A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more than cry it will bring omnipotence to our aid. A cry is the native language of a spiritually needy soul; it has done with fine phrases and long orations, and it takes to sobs and moans; and so, indeed, it grasps the most potent of all weapons, for heaven always yields to such artillery.” - Charles H. Spurgeon

45. “I like the way men cry. They're efficient.” - Kaui Hart Hemmings

46. “Don't you dare cry. If you do, then I shall, and I refuse to allow it.” - Patricia Ryan

47. “Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.) Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.” - Tom Clancy

48. “If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.” - Taylor Swift

49. “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

50. “Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing like a mad thing, held aloft the ring, a finger still thrust within its circle. "Precious, precious, precious!" Gollum cried. "My Precious! O my Precious!" And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. Out of the depths came his last wail precious, and he was gone.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

51. “I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.” - Lauren Oliver

52. “He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.” - Stephen King

53. “I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...” - Kate Chisman

54. “My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks.She climbed on the pile of lumber and sat down, a little flushed and quivery, to watch us off. I remember seeing her there with the baby till we were well down the channel. I remember noticing the bay as it grew cleaner, and thinking that I would break off swearing; and I remember cursing Bob Smart like a pirate within an hour.("Kentucky's Ghost")” - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

55. “Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.” - Friedrich Nietzsche