Heavens knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Never be ashamed of honest tears.

God gave people tear ducts for a good reason, and folks shouldn't be too stubborn to use them.

Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.

I do know this: most people, myself included, are at their most vulnerable in a journal. They pour it all out. Sometimes a journal is the only ear that will listen, or at least the only one that you want to talk to.

You may think that Much-Afraid was altogether too much given to shedding tears, but remember that she had Sorrow for a companion and teacher. There is this to be added, that her tears were all in secret, for no one but her enemies knew about this strange journey on which she had set out. The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

Saint Simeon once said that tears are a sign of the Holy Spirit's presence.

I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you had left me; I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly. I wept in my dreams, I dreamed you were still kind to me; I awoke, and still the flow of my tears streams on.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

I'd rather go through life feeling everything in all its intensity than feeling nothing whatsoever." Faith

Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.