Crying Is Good For You Quotes

#1. My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

John Garamendi

#3. I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

Daisy Donovan

#4. Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.

Kohta Hirano

#5. Reinforced to me again and again was how I was a 'brave girl' for not crying, a 'good girl' for not complaining, and soon I began defining myself this way, equating strength with silence.

Lucy Grealy

#6. When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep.

Michael Apted

#7. We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

Francoise Sagan

#8. She kept repeating that if she had dedicated herself assiduously to every child in the neighborhood, in a generation everything would change, there would no longer be the smart and the incompetent, the good and the bad. Then she looked at her son and again burst out crying.

Elena Ferrante

#9. Andromache: See, I've stopped crying. I won't cry ever again, I promise you.

Helen: Don't promise that. Never promise that. Tears are good sometimes. They clear the heart of sorrow. Cry.

Adele Geras

#10. I was a girl crying in the middle of a crowd, and nobody noticed. Maybe there was something awful about that, but there was something good, too. I would dry my own tears. I opened my eyes and kept on walking.
~Kit

Judy Blundell

#11. 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

#12. Crying is good for the soul, or so they say.

Chelsea Ballinger

#13. I have never been very good at trying to comfort people who are crying. Maybe I lack the gene for it. Usually, I just sit there and wait for it to stop.

Charles Rosenberg

#14. It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

Ben Chifley

#15. I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

Chris Vance

#16. They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.

Anne Lamott