Top 40 Weeping Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Weeping Quotes from famous people such as Gail Porter, Anne McCaffrey, Violette Leduc, Jessica Brown Findlay, Michael J. Fox, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

I’m always weeping at something or other.
Gail Porter
But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
Anne McCaffrey
At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers… I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.
Violette Leduc
We filmed ‘Labyrinth’ in South Africa for two and a half months and it was just the most unbelievable experience. Lots of sword fighting, mud in hair and lots of weeping! It’s very different from ‘Downton’ because I was going to work and having mud put in my hair – it’s the other extreme of the look!
Jessica Brown Findlay
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn’t yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.
Michael J. Fox
I remember weeping silently in bed after watching ‘Titanic.’
Joe Lycett
My sister Edith died at the age of 43. She was the youngest sister and the funniest. I had to harrumph and snort a few times to stop the weeping.
Richard Burton
God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.
Desmond Tutu
Step on the moist, pillowsoft earth, walking gingerly aside a weeping steam that calls your name, for it knows how to heal a wounded heart.
Maximillian Degenerez
I think maybe it’s time for liberals to not start weeping when I say things like ‘retard’ or ‘illegal alien.’
Ann Coulter
I remember just weeping my way through the ‘Friday Night Lights’ finale with my best friend and just being so happy all the way through because it was so beautiful.
Julie Plec
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
Sophocles
It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya Angelou
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Anne Bronte
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
Dick Cavett
You know that you’ve healed an issue when you can talk about it and you’re not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you’ve healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.
Iyanla Vanzant
I saw Lee J. Cobb in ‘Death of a Salesman’ when I was about 15, and I couldn’t get up from my seat in the theater; I was so… I was weeping, and I was upset. And I find that people are still like that in a similar circumstance in a theater today, where they just can’t get up. It’s too heartbreaking.
Joel Grey
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran
I don’t think I’ve left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I’ve had has not been into double digits.
Jay McInerney
I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn’t think about this very much because I’m almost weeping when I think about it.
Lawrence Halprin
By the time buzzwords appear in the popular press, there’s probably a bunch of us in the development trenches pulling out our hair and weeping.
Molly Holzschlag
I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, ‘I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.’
Marie Osmond
I’m interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
Louis Garrel
I had to stop traveling alone because I missed so many planes. When somebody runs up to you in the airport and begins to tell you their life story, you can’t say, ‘Excuse me, boo,’ as they’re weeping on your bosom.
Iyanla Vanzant
However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket – being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things – and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.
Lara St. John
If you’re embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn’t include weeping, then you have some personal work to do.
Ray Bradbury
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.
Romola Garai
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
Montesquieu
I befriended a homeless man five years ago, bought him a new set of teeth, helped him get his life on track. A writer for ‘Elle’ spent two hours talking to this guy and discarded almost everything he said. When the story came out, we both were weeping while reading it on the street!
Louise Linton
The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.
Du Fu
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus
I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't

I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can’t be weeping into the open wound.
Randa Haines
I found ‘The Twin’ sitting on a coffee table at a writers’ colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing. I finished it – weeping – a day later, and I’ve been puzzling over its powerful hold on me ever since.
Amy Waldman
I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she’d just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation – while everyone was weeping!
Beeban Kidron
The bravest thing I’ve ever done is fly to New York. I’m simply terrified of aeroplanes – I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
Samantha Bond
If I was to direct Ron Howard, I guarantee you, I would put him through a living hell every day. I would demand so much of him. We wouldn’t quit until he leaves the set crying. Weeping! Spent!
Tom Hanks
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil Gibran
I saw ‘Joy Luck Club’ when it came out, so that was early mid-’90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We’d just done ‘Double Happiness,’ and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.
Sandra Oh
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats
I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents’ farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I’d climb trees – there was a big weeping willow.
Miranda Kerr