Quotes

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
-Kahlil Gibran

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.
-Rita Schiano

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
-Charles Dickens

Let your tears flow and where they go, let your sorrows follow.
-Dodinsky

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
-Jewish Proverb

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
-Golda Meir

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly.
-Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.
-JessicaSimpson

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
-Christian Nevell Bovee

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
-Natalie Clifford Barney

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
-Antoine Rivarol

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
-Ovid

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
-Albert Smith

Tears are the silent language of grief.
-Voltaire, A Philosophical Dictionary

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
-Kurt Vonnegut

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
-Henry Maudsley

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.
-Steel Magnolias

Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.
-Eileen Mayhew

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.
-Mignon McLaughlin

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.
-Alfred Austin, Savonarola

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
-William Shakespeare

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
-Hosea Ballou

Lips that taste of tears, they say, Are the best for kissing.
-Dorothy Parker