"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"...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 (The Bad Beginning)

"When some is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

"'I have been crying,' she replied, simply, 'and it has done me good. It helps a woman you know, just as swearing helps a man.'"
— Horace Annesley Vachell (The Romance of Judge Ketchum)

"And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

"Crying is all right in its own 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

"Know that it is a corpse who loves you and adores you and will never, never leave you!...Look, I am not laughing now, crying, crying for you, Christine, who have torn off my mask and who therefore can never leave me again!...Oh, mad Christine, who wanted to see me!"
— Gaston Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel)

"There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears [p. 173]."
— Shannon Hale (Princess Academy)

"Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else compares to such a prayer. Crying includes all the principles of Yoga."
— Swami Kripalu

"Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?
-Clary"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Glass)

"I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over."
— Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)

"When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can't. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it's just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn't do a damn thing to fix anything."
— Chase Brooks (Hello, My Love 2: First Love Deserves a Second Chance)

"Two turtle doves will show thee
Where my cold ashes lie
And sadly murmuring tell thee
How in tears I did die"
— Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

"Consider anything, only don’t cry!"
— Lewis Carroll (Through the Looking-Glass)

"I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one’s cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family."
— Sloane Crosley

"I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried."
— John Swartzwelder (The Time Machine Did It)

"No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time."
— Richard Kelly

"And thus we all are nighing
The truth we fear to know:
Death will end our crying
For friends that come and go."
— Edwin Arlington Robinson

"Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up and you quickly forget how it's done."
— Alice Hoffman The Ice Queen