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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
- Samuel Beckett


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


“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”

― José N. Harris, MI VIDA

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ” 

― Colette

“And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall.” 

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.” 

― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.” 

― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“A broken heart bleeds tears.” 

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“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, Watcher in the Woods