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1 " Many people will tell that it is not for a man to cry, but they may not know how is to feel your head empty and only tears will come out to stand up for you. "
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2 " A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and your bitter tears will be only tears of tender sorrow that purifies the heart and delivers it from sin. "
― Fyodor Dostoevsky , The Brothers Karamazov
3 " There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry, to start the healing that sometimes only tears can bring. But if there was a place for tears of relief, there might even be a place for tears of pride[.] "
― Alexander McCall Smith , The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #8)
4 " If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes. "
