Cry Quotes

• If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.3, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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  Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sad, Stay Strong, Tears

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 29, 2011

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• When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

  Tony Campolo

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Matter

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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  Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

  Judy Garland

  Thinking, Attention, Has Beens

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• My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

  Bettie Page

  Dark, Victory, Actresses

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Feb 18, 2014

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• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  Edith Piaf

  People, Want

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• I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

  Serena Williams

  Smile, Athlete, Fighting

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• Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Helping, Obnoxious

  Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage (2004). “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others”, p.31, Revell

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• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  Cal Thomas

  Character, Home, Law

  Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”

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• One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

  James Caan

  Baseball, Eye, Son

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

  Evan Davis

  Men, Order, Pissed Off

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• I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Writing, Sacrifice, Years

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• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  Salma Hayek

  Movie, Book, Home

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• I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.

  Michael Jackson

  Play, America, Car

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• All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  America, United States, Rooftops

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• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Struggle, Men

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• I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards "How did they do that?"

  John Lasseter

  Movie, Real, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

  Vivien Leigh

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

  Loretta Lynn

  Smile, People, Trying

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• I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Loss, Thinking, Office

  "Minority Report". Interview by Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Well, because I'm naturally a tomboy, when I have sleepovers with girls, they end up going home and crying.

  Alexa Vega

  Girl, Home, Sleepovers

  "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.

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• I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

  James Whistler

  Two, Three, Four

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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