Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to ask somebody why the entire world has had to pay so much and is still paying so much for some folks' unhappiness.

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris

I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I have come to the edge, of the land. I could get pushed over.

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

I got out on the street and started crying the kind of hysterical tears made justifiable only by turning off one's cell phone, putting it to the ear, and pretending to be told of a death in the family.

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die

I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

Wen life gives you hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.

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.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

Can you see the pictures before you on how to intervene on behalf of the oppressed? Are you thinking of what to do to the disenfranchised of your society? Do you notice the abused of your society? Can you see the afflicted that are crying for that justice every day? What of those who are been maltreated on daily basis, do you think they need that justice? Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you, can you serve them justice?