Quotes about crying
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“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, the sinners are much more fun.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

Variant: I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

“I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Time

“I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Solitude, Sleep

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Sister, Heart, Friendship, For Mother

“So are you gonna cry about it like a punk, or are you gonna do something?”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

“I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.”

John Swartzwelder book The Time Machine Did It

Source: The Time Machine Did It

Time

“To die,
so young to die.
No, no, not I,
I love the warm sunny skies,
light, song, shining eyes,
I want no war, no battle cry,
No, no, not I.”

Hannah Senesh (1921–1944) Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II

Love, War, Light

“Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.'
For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Sadness

“I love you"…"But I made you cry.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

The Pact

Love

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Singing

“A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Source: Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of "ZEN Mind, Beginner's Mind"

Suffering

“Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Learning, Forgetting

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

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Learning, Daughters

“To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.”

Anne McCaffrey book Nerilka's Story

Source: Nerilka's Story

Dreams, Sun

“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”

Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.”

Knut Hamsun book Hunger

Source: Hunger

“The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, "No, I'm happy for you?"”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

That's when it's really sad.
Rolling Stone magazine/iTunes podcast (December 2005)
On the "chin-up sad" tone of one of his new songs on his upcoming album "Continuum"

Happiness, Sadness, Smile

“Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.”

Cressida Cowell (1966) British writer

Source: How to Twist a Dragon's Tale

Beauty, Tear

“The battle cry sort of gave you away. Try not to yell next time.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Time

“It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Love, People

“Everyone is a hypocrite in one sense or another and I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

Sense

“You can laugh or you can cry. It is up to you which one you do.”

Rachael Ray (1968) American businessman

“Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Light, Fight, Baby

“Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Happiness, People, Search, Hurt

“Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Books, Idea

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”

William T. Sherman (1820–1891) American General, businessman, educator, and author.

Letter to James E. Yeatman of St. Louis, Vice-President of the Western Sanitary Commission (21 May 1865). As quoted on p. 358, and footnoted on p. 562, in Sherman: A Soldier's Passion For Order https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/080938762X (2007), John F. Marszalek, Southern Illinois University Press, Chapter 15 ('Fame Tarnished') Variant text: I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers […] it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated […] that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. […] I declare before God, as a man and a soldier, I will not strike a foe who stands unarmed and submissive before me, but would rather say—‘Go, and sin no more.’ As quoted in Sherman: Merchant of Terror, Advocate of Peace https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1455611891 (1992), Charles Edmund Vetter, Pelican Publishing, p. 289 See the Discussion Page for more extensive sourcing information. 1860s, 1865, Letter to James E. Yeatman (May 1865) Context: I confess without shame that I am tired & sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. Even success, the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies […] It is only those who have not heard a shot, nor heard the shrills & groans of the wounded & lacerated (friend or foe) that cry aloud for more blood & more vengeance, more desolation & so help me God as a man & soldier I will not strike a foe who stands unarmed & submissive before me but will say ‘Go sin no more.

War, Hell

“I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.”

Aleister Crowley book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

Tear

“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Thinking, Suffering

“Harry Dresden: The noise was deafening, and no one could have heard me anyway as I let out my own battle cry, which I figured was worth a shot. What the hell. "I don't believe in faeries!"”

Jim Butcher book Summer Knight

Source: The Dresden Files, Summer Knight (2002), Chapter 31

Hell

“I am crying over the elusive nature of love.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Love, Nature

“You have to laugh at yourself sometimes, cause you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.”

Emily Saliers (1963) singer-songwriter, restaurateur

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. (Narrator)”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.
Source: Fight Club

Love

“No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.”

Harlan Coben book Six Years

Source: Six Years

Feeling, Thinking, Sleep

“Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Soul

“Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

Source: Specials

“… the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Variant: The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.
Source: A Fine Balance

“the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

Loss

“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

Happiness, People, Wedding

“3. When he smiles at you, sometimes you feel like crying.”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 13

Smile, Feeling

“Boys don't cry, but men do.”

Malorie Blackman book Boys Don't Cry

Source: Boys Don't Cry

Men, Boy

“I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

“She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.”

Lisi Harrison Monster High

Source: Monster High

“At long last, she gasped out, "It’s Seth."
"What happened?" I demanded. "Is he okay?"
"He ended it." Her crying renewed. "He broke the engagement and told me it was over.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Shadows

“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Boy, Time, Heart, Heartbreaking

“You are becoming a snake tomorrow, and as you start to devour people, with that mouth that has eaten others, you cry your love to me, and the same as today, I do wonder, will I be able to say my love to you?" - Gin Ichimaru awww”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Love, People

“Stars aren’t supposed to cry. They’re supposed to laugh. (Zarek)
How can I laugh when I have no heart? (Astrid)
You have a heart. (He placed her hand over his.) One that only beats for you, princess. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Star, Heart, Princess

“The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the lawn and sat her forehead on her knees. The grass and soil were still warm from the day. She wanted to cry but she couldn't. The feeling was too deep.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Feeling, Tree, Grass

“I cannot stay," he lied for me, eyes averted. "I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Variant: I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever.
Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, Time

“The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Mother's Day, For Parents, For Mother

“It was easier when all we wanted to do was eat them and take their stuff,” he grumbled.
And it had been easier when he hadn’t cared if he made any of them cry.”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

“Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.”

Elizabeth George Speare book The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Source: The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Way, Lying, Heart