Socrates
Philosopher
"Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will."
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Weeping
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping."
Seneca the Younger
Philosopher, Statesman
"All things are cause for either laughter or weeping."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"He does not weep who does not see."
Isaac Watts
Hymn Writer, Poet
"For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief."
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"I wept not — so to stone I grew within."
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"They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears."
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"How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?"
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"No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself."
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"Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God."
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"She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man."
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