Sayings about Weeping
Weeping makes the heart grow lighter. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Widows weep but they look for another husband. ~ South American Proverb
Who dances at the wedding, weeps at the funeral. ~ Yiddish Proverb
When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone. ~ Russian Proverbs
When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps. ~ Traditional Proverb
When the child falls the mother weeps; when the mother falls the child laughs. ~ Rwandan Proverbs
When a son gives to his father, they both weep. ~ Yiddish Proverb
When a girl is born all four walls weep. ~ Russian Proverb
Weeping washes the face. ~ Indian Proverbs
Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife. ~ German Proverbs
Water teaches us to weep, wine teaches us to sing. ~ Polish Proverbs
Those who love you will make you weep; those who hate you will make you laugh. ~ Russian Proverb
The one who loves you will also make you weep. ~ Argentine Proverbs
The doorstep weeps for forty days whenever a girl is born. ~ Arabian Proverbs
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. ~ English Proverbs
Laugh at the rice and you will weep for the lentil. ~ Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.)
It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~ Spanish Proverbs
If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes. ~ Turkish Proverbs
If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer’s passing. ~ Lebanese Proverbs
He wastes his tears who weeps before the judge. ~ Italian Proverbs
Finders keepers, losers weepers. ~ Traditional Proverb
Everything ends in weeping. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps. ~ Chinese Proverb
Be careful not to make a woman weep. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Among those who stand, do not sit; among those who sit, do not stand. Among those who laugh, do not weep; among those who weep, do not laugh. ~ Jewish Proverbs
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. ~ Latin Proverbs
A rich widow weeps in one eye and laughs with the other. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
A man laughs at others and weeps for himself. ~ Indian Proverb
“What is marriage, mother?” “Child, it is spinning, having children, making money, and weeping. ~ Portuguese Proverb
Quotations about Weeping
The April’s in her eyes; it is love’s spring, and these the showers to bring it on. ~ William Shakespeare
Weep not for him that dieth; for he sleeps, and is at rest. ~ Lady Caroline Sheridan Norton
Those who do not weep, do not see. ~ Victor Hugo
To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ~ William Shakespeare
In silence weep, and thy convulsive sorrow inward keep. ~ Matthew Prior
Do not weep, my dear lady! Your tears are too precious to shed for me; bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. ~ Laurence Sterne
This heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I’ll weep. ~ William Shakespeare
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. ~ Socrates
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure. ~ Ovid
Weeping is not alone woman’s weapon, but also a specific for transient sorrows. ~ Adelaide Billet Dufresnoy
Love, Gratitude, and Pity wept at once. ~ James Thomson
Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face. ~ Isaac Watts
What remains when hope is fled? She answered, “Endless weeping. ~ Samuel Rogers
We weep and laugh, as we see others do.~ Wentworth Dillon
Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ~ Carl Sandburg
Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it’s over, you feel like you don’t have any bones left to hold you up. ~ Sarah Ockler
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief. ~ Isaac Watts