Crying Quotes
2122 quotes by 1425 authors
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Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
— Mark Twain
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If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the…
— Pablo Neruda
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And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see…
— Robertson Davies
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I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it…
— Sloane Crosley
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...it was more like bleeding than crying.
— Stephen King
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
— Alice Hoffman
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Back in the autumn I had awakened to a growing darkness and cacophony, as if something in the depths were crying out. A whole chorus…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no…
— Cassandra Clare
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It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and…
— Joyce Maynard
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I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.
— Edith Wharton
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked…
— Janet Fitch
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I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back…
— Richelle Mead
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Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he…
— John Boyne
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No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.
— Xinran
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He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing…
— Richard Yates
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It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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