“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.”

“Weep for life, with its toil and care,
Its crime to shun, and its sorrow to bear;
Let tears and the sign of tears be shed
Over the living, not over the dead!”

“Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers,
Ere the sorrow comes with years?
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers—
And that cannot stop their tears.”

“{of Theatres} There, while weeping for sorrows which are not, laughing at the light jest or the ludicrous misadventure, how little is remembered of the want which makes fear the only bond that binds the living to life!”

“I weep for Adonais — he is dead!
O, weep for Adonais! though our tears
Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!”

“Words that weep and tears that speak.”

“From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands
and establishes roots that are watered by weeping.”

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”

“Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.”

“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”