Weeping Quotes

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. (Sophocles)
Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part. View quote
Thomas Paine
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. View quote
William Butler Yeats
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes. View quote
Isaac Watts
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs. View quote
Alice Hoffman
When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat. View quote
Alexander Blok
A weeping woman is a bucket with no bottom. View quote
Robert Jordan
When they [N'Sync and Aerosmith] played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror! View quote
Lewis Black
I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I'd turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves. (Elie Wiesel)
Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? View quote
Anna Letitia Barbauld
I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again. View quote
George MacDonald
Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in an April shroud; Then glut thy sorrow on a morning rose. View quote
John Keats
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east. View quote
Quentin Crisp
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end. (Anne McCaffrey)
The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind. View quote
Shannon Hale
I tore off my mask so as not to lose one of her tears... and she did not run away!... and she did not die!... She remained alive, weeping over me, weeping with me. We cried together! I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer. View quote
Gaston Leroux
Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs! View quote
P. C. Cast
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it - weeping - a day later, and I've been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since. View quote
Amy Waldman