"Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will."
Weeping quotes
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"I wept not — so to stone I grew within."
"They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears."
"How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?"
"No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself."
"Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God."
"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."