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All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbi...

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Hermann HesseThe Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse

No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was k...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was wil...

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And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a ...

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I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, ...

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Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears.

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like cr...

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We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met ...

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What can we do?" Mom asked again.I shrugged.But she kept asking, as if there were something she coul...

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I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost - like, aside from...

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...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not...

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Jonathan TropperThis is Where I Leave You

He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and...

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Laurell K. HamiltonDivine Misdemeanors

Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a gr...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall ...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

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Lewis CarrollThrough the Looking-Glass

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we...

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It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing,...

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We cannot always cry at the right timeand who is to say which time is right?

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Madeleine L'EngleThe Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices,...

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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, a...

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And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling fro...

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I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

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I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I di...

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I shook again, tasted plum, and suddenly the words were pouring out of me."She said I sang before I ...

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But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finge...

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I wanted to cry so bad, but my tears are inside. A blindfold keeps them there. I can’t see today. Pa...

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Sometimes when I have the feeling like I’m almost crying, it can turn into an almost-laughing feelin...

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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...

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I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, a...

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I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the ...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had g...

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I tried to concentrate on the angel's voice instead."Bella, please! Bella, listen to me, please, ple...

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When she enters the room she immediately shuts the window and draws the shade with a quick, hard pul...

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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but...

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I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too fu...

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I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too clo...

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I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. T...

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Terry BrooksArmageddon's Children

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my...

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I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on th...

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I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shif...

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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or ...

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I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't m...

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Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real r...

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Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real r...

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Those who do not weep, do not see.

Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the l...

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Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which r...

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Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're ...

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Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave t...

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment.

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Agatha ChristieThe Sittaford Mystery

Sloppy crying had never helped anyone yet.

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Agatha ChristieThe Sittaford Mystery

There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times w...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Looking silly can be very powerful. People who are committing and taking risks become the king and q...

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too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

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Amy TanThe Hundred Secret Senses

I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately with...

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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep fro...

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By the way, don't 'weep inwardly' and get a sore throat. If you must weep, weep: a good honest howl!...

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C. S. LewisThe Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you st...

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Stop it," Chance says out loud, angryraw, scornful voice that she hardly recognizes, "Jesus, just fu...

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Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood call...

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The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

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Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was...

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What was the point in crying when there was no one to comfort you? And what was worse, when you coul...

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it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the ...

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Charles DarwinThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

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So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...

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She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Ch...

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Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Thing Around Your Neck

Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient wit...

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More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everyth...

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I don’t know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his childr...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying

Deep in earth my love is lyingAnd I must weep alone.

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come ...

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He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Life is so strangeI don't know whyBut somebody, somebody has to cry.

... You have a heart and nerves the same as your brother men! Why should you be anxious to conceal t...

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Laugh now, cry later.

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Erma BombeckThe Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned h...

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François MauriacThérèse Desqueyroux