“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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