...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ...

~ John Geddes

John Geddes Emotional Pain Weeping Writing From The Heart Writing Process Writing Secrets

Weeping for other people's pain isn't true weeping if it doesn't come from deep down your heart.

~ Auliq Ice

Auliq Ice Betrayal Mockery Mocking Sympathy Weeping

Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.

~ Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller Achilles Dead Name Patrochilles Patroclus Weeping

You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.

~ Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway Crying Tears Weeping

What sort of life have you ledthat you find yourself, an adult male of late middle age,about to weep among the avocados and citrus fruitsin a vast, overlit room next to a bosomy Cuban Grandmawith her sparkly, extravagent eyewear?It's good that your parents are no longer alive.

~ August Kleinzahler

August Kleinzahler Produce Weeping

Soon I was weeping---for the reservists who put their entire lives on hold when called to duty, for the military mothers who had to keep their families together all alone, for the parents, spouses, sons, and daughters who were beset with worry, for Mike, and for the soldiers who would never come home. I only meant to buy a shower curtain, and now, quite unexpectedly, right when I least wanted it, months of pent-up loneliness, fear, and frustration were pouring out in an endless churn of hot, silent tears.

~ Lily Burana

Lily Burana Military Spouses Weeping

Some say the ocean roars,I hear it ever weeping.Weep, ocean, weep for those gone before.Weep, O sea, for the open graves that fill your shore.

~ Craig Froman

Craig Froman Ocean Pain Roars Weep Weeping

Hi,' he says.'Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.'You know,' Nick says as he hands her a tissue from the bedside table,' for all this talk about how you don't cry, you sure are sprouting a lot of water.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Jennifer E. Smith Crying Weeping

My wife and I said good-bye the next morning in a little sheltered place among the lumber on the wharf; she was one of your women who never like to do their crying before folks.She climbed on the pile of lumber and sat down, a little flushed and quivery, to watch us off. I remember seeing her there with the baby till we were well down the channel. I remember noticing the bay as it grew cleaner, and thinking that I would break off swearing; and I remember cursing Bob Smart like a pirate within an hour.(Kentucky's Ghost)

~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Cry Crying Cursing Sailing Sailor Ship Weep Weeping Women

Lately I find myself staring at people’s faces... I find myself frantically searching through the crowds for one face. I don’t find that face, I cry inside. Weeping for the identity I know no more.

~ Phindiwe Nkosi

Phindiwe Nkosi Broken Cries Cry Face Inside Love People Search Weep Weeping

I learned a long time ago that you have to be able to laugh no matter what. Otherwise you start weeping and never stop.

~ Catherine Jones Payne

Catherine Jones Payne Laugh Weeping