Motivational Weeping Quotes And Sayings In Life
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A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging weeping quotes, weeping sayings, and weeping proverbs.
Best Weeping Quotes
- “There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.” ~ Ovid
- “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “To weep is to make less the depth of grief.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.” ~ John Eldredge
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“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.” ~ Rumi
- “Jesus wept, but He never complained.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.” ~ Socrates
- “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” ~ Christopher Morley
- “Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ’tis time to part.” ~ Thomas Paine
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“Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.” ~ Anne Bronte
- “For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.” ~ Anne Rice
- “Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.” ~ Henri Nouwen
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“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” ~ Clive Barker
- “The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “My tears are buried in my heart like cave-locked fountains sleeping.” ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- “They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.” ~ Euripides
- “Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.” ~ Thomas S. Monson
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“There is a certain pleasure in weeping.” ~ Ovid
- “I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I’ll weep.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.” ~ Du Fu
- “I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason – as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.” ~ Publilius Syrus
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“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Who would recognize the unhappy if grief had no language?” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” ~ William Butler Yeats
- “Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird’s life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” ~ Matthew McConaughey
- “For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.” ~ Isaac Watts
- “When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?” ~ William Cowper
- “The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses goodwill in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”-not “Weep and Repent.” And the goodwill is expressed in a material, earthly form-by giving presents to one’s friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance . . . .” ~ Ayn Rand
- “Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?” ~ Louis XIV
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“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “There is some joy in weeping. For our tears
Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.” ~ Ovid - “we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.” ~ Susan Griffin
- “…you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.” ~ Daniel Handler
- “There is a danger in the word someday when what it means is “not this day.”…The scriptures make the danger of delay clear. It is that we may discover that we have run out of time. The God who gives us each day as a treasure will require an accounting. We will weep, and He will weep, if we have intended to repent and to serve Him in tomorrows which never came or have dreamt of yesterdays where the opportunity to act was past. This day is a precious gift of God. The thought “Someday I will” can be a thief of the opportunities of time and the blessings of eternity.” ~ Henry B. Eyring
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“We weep and laugh, as we see others do.” ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
- “What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenseless creatures they would be!” ~ Douglas William Jerrold
- “In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.” ~ Robert Jordan
- “Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.” ~ Golda Meir
- “Heaven did not seem to be my home, and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth, and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.” ~ Emily Bronte , My heart is weeping quotes
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“There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.” ~ Baron de Montesquieu
- “I remember one particular moment (I don’t actually know how old I was, but I guess around 7 or something like that) when I remember actually weeping. I was by myself in a room in the house, and I was just crying because I realized how much Jesus loved me.” ~ N. T. Wright
- “I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep – Blindness” ~ Jose Saramago
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“He does not weep who does not see.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.” ~ Ming-Dao Deng
- “There’s no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There’s such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one’s heart.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.” ~ Rumi
- “I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.” ~ Vladimir Nabokov
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“Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’s all one.” ~ Frederick Buechner
- “I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.” ~ Charles Bukowski
- “When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.” ~ Tecumseh
- “I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.” ~ Gilda Radner
- “I said to myself if Christianity is dead, I will sit at its tomb and will weep until it arises again, just as Mary Magdalene sat at the tomb of Jesus and wept until Jesus showed Himself. Then when I came out of prison I saw Christianity is not dead. The number of practicing Christians in Rumania according to the figures given by the Communists themselves in 20 years of Communist dictatorship has grown 300 percent.” ~ Richard Wurmbrand
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“Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs!” ~ P. C. Cast
- “Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don’t ‘feel called’ to the mission field. We don’t need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of ‘going out,’ and stop our weeping because ‘they won’t come in.’ Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.” ~ Jim Elliot
- “A sob racks my body again, and he wraps his arms around me so tightly I find it difficult to breathe, but it doesn’t matter. My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my throat. If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.” ~ Veronica Roth
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“There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.” ~ Ovid
- “I think there’s a lot of threshold weeping. Like, am I doing this? Am I really wearing this out in the world? My daughter is very much like that. She will put clothes on and her clothes just make her beside herself. They make her so sad sometimes. And you do realize you feel betrayed sometimes by your own clothing. You put something on that usually protects you and makes you OK, and sometimes you’re just not fit for the world and even your best pants can’t overcome that feeling for you.” ~ Heidi Julavits
- “Another Quarter Pounder sometimes seems like a good idea- but I always regret later. Only in hindsight do we see how God would not let us settle for our well-intentioned but limited desires, but called us- sometimes weeping and kicking- to something more enduring and satisfying.” ~ Christopher Ruddy
