Top 100 Weep Quotes
#1. I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them.
Joan Of Arc
#2. Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#3. The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
Miguel De Unamuno
#4. God is weeping. And how the people weep when they make God weep!
Jose Marti
#5. When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
Victor Hugo
#6. Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
Alice Hoffman
#7. Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.
Sarah McLachlan
#8. Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of them will suffer shipwreck, and some-the loss of their souls. Let the indiscriminate viewer beware.
R. Kent Hughes
#9. Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;
And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!
Edgar Allan Poe
#10. There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.
Thomas Lynch
#11. Music's the best thing we do as humans, isn't it? Music, I mean you flail your limbs, make you move in a way you don't understand. Or it can make you weep like a sailor's wife staring at a storm.
Russell Howard
#13. I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all ... a day ... an hour.
George R R Martin
#14. I don't care if you wear white to your coming-out party and pretend to be a virgin, but you're gay, Kit. G-A-Y. Gay! So gay, fairies everywhere will weep that your machismo avoided their gaydar for so long.
Tibby Armstrong
#15. I come out on the stage expecting the audience to weep, and instead they burst out laughing.
Yukio Mishima
#16. It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. (Much of my callousness and invulnerability has come from my refusal to mourn the loss of a soft word and a tender embrace.) Blessed are those who weep and mourn.
Brennan Manning
#18. And why does man weep when he is sad? I asked at last - Because the glass in the eyes must be washed now and then, so that we can see clearly, said the child.
August Strindberg
#19. Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
Thomas S. Monson
#20. I have far more reasons to rather disbelieve that a man besides me suffers when he cries, yet I have far more sentiments, than those great reasons, to instead weep for his, far less likely, sufferings.
Kedar Joshi
#21. I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up*
Thom Yorke
#22. A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me ...
Anna Akhmatova
#23. We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
#24. The most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep ...
John Geddes
#25. I want to feel the rain on my face, to smile at any man I feel attracted to, to accept all the coffees men might buy for me. I want to kiss my mother, tell her I love her, weep in her lap, unashamed of showing my feelings, because they were always there even though I hid them.
Paulo Coelho
#28. Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#29. He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.
Angela Carter
#30. Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.
Maya Angelou
#31. Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows, who never weep for the sorrows of others very seldom have any of their own. Great hearts could be made only by great troubles.
Charles Spurgeon
#32. "Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."
Charles Dickens
#33. Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
Herman Melville
#34. Never will I be satisfied until God works in convicting power and men and women weep their way to the cross. . . . Oh that He would break me down and cause me to weep for the salvation of souls.
Alvin L. Reid
#35. That's the difference between a champ and a knife thrower. The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently, he can't be sure. But when he can no longer throw the high hard one, he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He doesn't just walk off the mound and weep.
Raymond Chandler
#36. 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
#38. Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.
Andrew Jackson
#39. Do not weep, for I shall be more useful to you after my death and I shall help you then more effectively than during my life.
Saint Dominic
#41. It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
Mary Caroline Richards
#43. If you saw a bullet
hit a Bird - and he told you
he wasn't shot - you might weep
at his courtesy, but you would
certainly doubt his word -
One drop more from the gash
that stains your Daisy's
bosom - then would you believe?
Emily Dickinson
#44. And when the moment came, even then Genji would be fortunate. He would die without fear, drenched in his own heart's blood, in the embrace of a beautiful woman, and she would weep for him.
What samurai could hope for more?
Takashi Matsuoka
#45. In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.
Marilyn Monroe
#46. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. - Gandalf the Grey, The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
#47. Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
Tina Brown
#48. Alone beneath a tallow candle, she allowed herself a shuddering sob, then another. A woman may weep, but not a queen.
George R R Martin
#49. We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.
Maya Angelou
#50. We weep,
tears of blood,
we weep,
In despair, crying,
we weep;
the sun forever has stolen
the light from his eyes.
No more his face do we see,
no more his voice do we hear,
nor will his affectionate gaze
watch over his people.
Jane Bierhorst
#51. From dreams of bliss shall men awake
one day, but not to weep:
the dreams remain; they only break
the mirror of their sleep.
John Paul Richter
#53. I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.
William Shakespeare
#54. Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.
Sue Monk Kidd
#56. If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
Horace
#57. Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon.
Robert Herrick
#58. I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.
Charlotte Bronte
#59. Weep hard as much as you need; but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life.
Munia Khan
#60. There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.
Solomon
#61. Ah, clear they see and true they say
That one shall weep, and one shall stray
Dorothy Parker
#62. Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.
Alissa Nutting
#63. I thought we stopped using grunts as guinea pigs decades ago. Even the Nazis didn't run medical experiments on their own troops in combat. This book explodes like a grenade in the Pentagon's privy. Red it and weep; better yet, get mad."
Col. David H. Hackworth (U.S. Army, ret.)
Gary Matsumoto
#64. When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.
Olga Broumas
#65. To be left with only the trace of a memory is to gaze at an armchair that's still molded to the form of a love who has left never to return: It is to grieve, dear reader, it is to weep.
Orhan Pamuk
#66. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#67. O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!
William Shakespeare
#68. We all have a divine nature, and we have a thirst to become one with that divinity. That divinity lets us find meaning in life event at the pinnacle of happiness, lets us weep for the pain and sorrow of others, and lets us dream of a more beautiful world. (p. 154)
Ilchi Lee
#69. A thing that had always struck her about the child was that he seemed so collected. She had never seen him cry. And now she realized that his calmness was some instinctive shame of showing his feelings; he hid himself to weep.
W. Somerset Maugham
#70. But I was wrong to weep and beg and try to force you by your love. Love is not a thing to be so used.
C.S. Lewis
#71. Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.
Charlie Chaplin
#72. (On Captain Britain) Every British person thinks he's got the same accent as them. The air around him is warm like a summer meadow. He smells of honey. I've seen grown men weep at the sight of him.
Paul Cornell
#73. About your easy heads my prayers
I said with syllables of clay.
What gift, I asked, shall I bring now
Before I weep and walk away?
Take, they replied, the oak and laurel.
Take our fortune of tears and live
Like a spendthrift lover. All we ask
Is the one gift you cannot give.
Tana French
#74. We'll turn to ashes in this house without men, but. we won't give this miserable town the pleasure of seeing us weep
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#75. To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.
Dean Koontz
#76. So you're saying that after I take a disappointing shower I should get in bed and lay there and weep?
Mike Rowe
#77. Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
#78. My fellow Americans, good evening. My name is Becca Goldman and I weep with all of you.
I texted one word to Megan, 'Gag'
She wrote back: 'My name is Becca Goldman, and I sleep with all of you
Jeri Smith-Ready
#79. A pedant who beheld Solon weeping for the death of a son said to him, 'Why do you weep thus, if weeping avails nothing?' And the sage answered him, 'Precisely for that reason - because it does not avail.
Miguel De Unamuno
#81. Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.
Kobayashi Issa
#82. We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.
Mamoru Oshii
#83. It was all I could do not to fall on my knees and weep like the bastard she always said I was, and I was a breath away from begging her to run away with me.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#84. I hope and hoping feeds my pain
I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
I laugh but the laughter does not pass within
I burn but the burning makes no mark outside
Niccolo Machiavelli
#85. Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.
Charlotte Gray
#86. I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Bette Davis
#87. The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.
Swami Vivekananda
#88. I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it - seems that only children weep. Good night.
Harper Lee
#89. Something inside his chest unlocked
wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown upon her breeze. He felt, strangely enough, staring into her yes, like he was going to weep.
Shana Abe
#91. Lady Macduff: Now God help thee, poor monkey! But
how wilt thou do for a father?
Son: If he were dead, you'd weep for him. If you would
not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a
new father.
William Shakespeare
#92. Weep for a dead man, for he left the light behind; But weep over a fool, for he left intelligence behind.
Anonymous
#93. There have been so many times
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious.
Nayyirah Waheed
#94. The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:
I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.
Paulo Coelho
#95. I don't believe in the perfectibility of the individual. What was it in this statement that made Clark want to weep?
Emily St. John Mandel
#96. Brothers, sisters, till the last Woe that this has come to pass, By your grave, I shall weep For it was I who made you sleep.
Pierce Brown
#98. Then I will pour out a spirit A, g of grace and prayer on the house of David and the residents of Jerusalem, and they will look at B Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly for Him as one weeps for a firstborn. h 11
Anonymous
#99. For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
Charles Kingsley
#100. The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
Hanna Rosin
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