“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

“Weeping itself there does not let them weep,
And grief that finds a barrier in the eyes
Turns itself inward to increase the anguish.”

“The one for whom the day of ‘Āshūrā is a day of tragedy, grief and weeping, Allah The Mighty, The Glorious, shall make the Day of Judgment, a day of joy and happiness for him.”

“If you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.”
Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi.

“I saw endless depths of brown, the depths I'd fallen into so many times. No red rings.
Dimitri… was not a Strigoi.
And he was weeping.”

“Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.”

“She sank again into the salty water…into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.”

“Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.”