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.

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“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

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“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

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“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…
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“I love you"…"But I made you cry.”

The Pact

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“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"

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“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"

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“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.

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

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

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“… 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.”

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

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“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

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“Boys don't cry, but men do.”

Source: Boys Don't Cry

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“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

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“Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.”

Terri Farley (1950) American writer

Source: Seven Tears Into the Sea

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“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

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“This is my story; I promise to leave nothing out.
First you will smile, and then you will cry - don't say you haven't been warned.”

Variant: First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
Source: A Walk to Remember

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“Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.
Cry.
Cry.
Cry.”

James Frey (1969) American screenwriter and media presenter
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“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

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“The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out.

Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: The Impossible

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“Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: One Hundred Names

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“That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: My Point... And I Do Have One

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