“To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.”

“I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.”

George Chapman Eastward Hoe

“Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.”

Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) Russian author

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”

Virginia Woolf book The Waves

“Tears are silent sorrow, screaming for comfort.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

“How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life,
A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.”

Edwin Arnold (1832–1904) British poet and journalist

“too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.”

Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient

“The laughter knows the depth of his own sorrows but never tears.”

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