#cry

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, 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

#getting-over-it #mourning #change

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#about #angry #anything #bring #change

Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pure surrender when your soul cries without any fight from your body and that’s how I knew she was deeply affected. ↗

— Renee Carlino

#pain #soul #tears #change

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#held-back #shed #tears #dreams

Come forth, Paladins! Fulfill your destiny! ↗

— Andry Chang

#everna #fireheart #paladin #rally #vadis

But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to my mouth and spread his fingers. "Push back laugh is not good. Not healthy." "Also cry?" I asked. I traced an imaginary tear down my cheek with one finger. "Also cry." He put his hand on his own belly. "Ha ha ha," he said, pressing his hand to show me the motion of his stomach. Then his expression changed to sad. "Huh huh huh," he heaved with exaggerated sobs, pressing his stomach again. "Same place. Not healthy to push down. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#laughter #suppression #tears #change

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#cry #pride #stock #tears #courage

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#crying #dead-souls #death #doves #loneliness

Weeping is not the same thing as crying, It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#death #lost #love #tragedy #weeping

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#inspirational #love #made-me-cry #nobility #sacrifice