826 Quotes About Crying


  • Author Samantha Hayes
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    The sounds of a man crying is a piteous noise, almost worse than an infant's cry. Babies are either hungry, sick or bored, or need changing. This man was none of those things. He was wrapped in grief as deep as the ocean, and no one could do anything to help him.

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  • Author Elizabeth Scott
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    ..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

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  • Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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    She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Chika knows do, the kind that screams Hold me and comfort me because I cannot deal with this alone. The woman's crying is private, as though she is carrying out a necessary ritual that involves no one else.

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  • Author محمد السباعي
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    بكى أحد الحكماء على قبر ولده، فقيل له: «كيف تبكي مع علمك أن الحزن لا يفيد؟» قال: ذلك الذي يبكيني، كفى حزنًا أن الحزن لا ينفع.” “الدموع.

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  • Author Cornelia Funke
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    How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic heroines in books tended to be amazingly beautiful. Not a word about swollen eyes or a red nose. "Crying always gives me a red nose," thought Elinor. "I expect that's why I'll never be in any book.

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