„If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.“

„You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? O man, because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.“

—  Ramakrishna Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836 - 1886

„You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.“

—  Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968

„Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry“

—  Paulo Coelho, buch Der Alchimist

„Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.“

—  Gabriel García Márquez Colombian writer 1927 - 2014

„You can clear out whatever obstacles are preventing you from living your most creative life, with the simple understanding that whatever is bad for you is probably also bad for your work.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

„If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.“

—  Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

„Why you scared? / You'll never change what's been and done
All of the stars / Have faded away / Just try not to worry / You'll see them someday / Take what you need / And be on your way / And stop crying your heart out“

—  Noel Gallagher British musician 1967

„It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes.“

—  Billy Collins American poet 1941

„No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.“

—  Dwight D. Eisenhower American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961) 1890 - 1969

„When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.“

—  Alanis Morissette Canadian-American singer-songwriter 1974

„Looking out from death you will always see
Those whom all your life you ought not to see“

—  Duo Duo Poet 1951

„Every time I see you, all the rays of the sun
Are streaming through the waves in your hair
And every star in the sky is taking aim at your eyes
Like a spotlight.“

—  Jim Steinman American musician 1947

„You start to think, when you’re younger, how important everything is and how things have to go right—your job, your career, your life, your choices, and all of that. Then, after a while, you start to realise that – I’m talking the big picture here – eventually you die, and eventually the sun burns out and the earth is gone, and eventually all the stars and all the planets in the entire universe go, disappear, and nothing is left at all. Nothing – Shakespeare and Beethoven and Michelangelo gone. And you think to yourself that there’s a lot of noise and sound and fury – and where’s it going? It’s not going any place… Now, you can’t actually live your life like that, because if you do you just sit there and – why do anything? Why get up in the morning and do anything? So I think it’s the job of the artist to try and figure out why, given this terrible fact, you want to go on living.“

—  Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

„If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.“

—  Sherman Alexie, buch The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

„I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.“

—  Mike Tyson American boxer 1966

„The sun is nice but it lights things up so much that you can't see very far… The night time is better. It stretches your soul to the stars.“

—  Fynn British writer 1919 - 1999

„Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way
In this bright future you can't forget your past
So dry your tears I say
No woman, no cry
No woman, no cry
Little darlin' don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry“

—  Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

„My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

„A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed cormulas about good and evil.“

—  Azar Nafisi, buch Reading Lolita in Tehran