Quote by Nicholas Sansbury Smith

“Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.”

— C.J. Redwine

“With tears came solace and surrender, pardon and courage.”

— André Aciman

“I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.”

— Joan Didion

“I deserved the tears that were flooding down my cheeks. I had earned them in blood and sweat, and by defying the odds. I…

— Bella Forrest

“Soon I was weeping---for the reservists who put their entire lives on hold when called to duty, for the military mothers who had to…

— Lily Burana

“Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.”

— Brom

“Tears can be good. They can cleanse us form our misery.”

— DiAnn Mills

“This is what he truly envies of these people, the luxury of terror as a talking point, and at this moment he feels so…

— Ben Fountain

“And the hurt was so deep that it was way beyond tears and so their faces were dry.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. If I didn't say anything, people in a group assumed the worst. They cried harder. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“crying by this time, but so was I, and I wasn’t ashamed. Grief had a way of sneaking up on a person. It lay…

— Linda Barrett

“I let a single tear fall. I shouldn’t have done that, because once I started, I couldn’t stop, and all of a sudden, I…

— Lucy Mihajlich