“Crying doesn't mean you are [a] good man. It doesn't mean you have a lot of passion. It's about the passion that's within your heart, it's not about your eyes, not about the tears.”
— Bashar al-Assad, Interview with Bill Neely (July 2016)
“With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.””
— John the Evangelist, Revelation 21:3-4
“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.”
— William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 2, line 173.
“I have been told tears are the body's weapon against pain. Having never wept, I hope yours to be happy.”
— Worf (played by Michael Dorn, Star Trek Picard Season 3 Episode entiteled "The Last Generation" (April 20, 2023) by Terry Matalas
“And weep the more, because I weep in vain.”
— Thomas Gray, Sonnet, On the Death of Mr. West.
“Sunt lacrymæ rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.”
— Tears are due to human misery, and human sufferings touch the mind.

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