“To be pathetic when we cry, we must cry without wanting to and without knowing it.”

“We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

“I don't need to cry so much. I think whatever you let loose with crying, I let loose with singing. I tend to be the one who wants… I'm trying to say this without sounding too touchy-feely. I'm usually the one who's better at comforting the person who's crying, you know?”

Beck (1970) American Musician (b.1970)

“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

William Shakespeare King Lear

“The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble, because we are sorry, angry, or fearful, as the case may be. Without the bodily states following on the perception, the latter would be purely cognitive in form, pale, colorless, destitute of emotional warmth.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

“Nearly a hundred pictures are featured here. Each and every one of them a pathetic cry for help.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter