Paulo Coelho Quotes

I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

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.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

I think I write songs because of pent-up feelings.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.

Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]

There is a certain pleasure in weeping.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

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

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.

You need to open up your soul and have a weep-a-thon.

A good cry can be wonderful sometimes, and sadness is nothing more than love announced. Sadness and Unhappiness are not the same thing, and it is good to remember that. And there is this: sadness cleanses the heart.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.