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Crying Quotes

Updated: Jul 13, 2025

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Antoine Rivarol


The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney


The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney


It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Charles Dickens


Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

C S Lewis


Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Steve Maraboli


They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Psalms 126:5


You know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Lemony Snicket


There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Joseph Roux


I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

Dante Alighieri


Tears are the silent language of grief.

Voltaire


Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin


What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Jewish Proverb


Sometimes, crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth can't explain how broken your heart is.



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

Henry Maudsley


Let your tears come. Let them water your soul.

Eileen Mayhew


Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Christian Nevell Bovee


It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

Job 16:20


I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Psalms 6:6


I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.

Psalms 69:3


Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney


Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Albert Smith


More grievous than tears is the sight of them.

Antonio Porchia


He does not weep who does not see.

Victor Hugo


To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

William Shakespeare


If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

Sophia Loren


For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

Psalms 116:8


Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Psalms 56:8


For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Revelation 7:17


And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Revelation 21:4


Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee:

2 Kings 20:5


Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

Jeremiah 31:16


He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Isaiah 25:8



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