Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

If you love a character that gets killed, it's agony.

I cry at births and not at funerals.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

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

Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks.

He watched and wept and prayed and felt for all

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Pearls mean tears.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Do not weep for me.

I'm always crying. I get a lump in my throat when I see intimacy between parents and their children.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

I cry a lot because I miss people.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.