Laurie R. King Quotes

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

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth.

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

I start crying when certain things come up, certain memories, certain feelings, and it's intense. But I think it's good for me - and therapeutic.

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.