Weep I cannot;
But my heart bleeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

Tears such as angels weep. [ Milton ]

Weep, for the light is dead. [ Schiller ]

It is as much intemperance to [ weep too much as to laugh too much. [Proverb ]

To weep is not always to suffer. [ Mme. de Genlis ]

Weep on; and, as thy sorrows flow,
I'll taste the luxury of woe. [ Moore ]

My wife lies here.
All my tears cannot bring her back;
Therefore, I weep. [ Miscellaneous epitaph ]

There is a calm for those who weep,
A rest for weary pilgrims found,
They softly lie and sweetly sleep
Low in the ground. [ Montgomery ]

To weep for joy is a kind of manna. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Words that weep and tears that speak. [ Abraham Cowley ]

I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne, and yet must bear. [ Shelley ]

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight;
For thou must die. [ Herbert ]

We weep and laugh, as we see others do. [ Roscommon ]

Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow againe. [ Thos. Percy ]

Some weep in perfect justice to the dead.
As conscious all their love is in arrear. [ Young ]

And weep the more because I weep in vain. [ Gray ]

Dreadful looks a God, where mortals weep. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Perhaps the early grave
Which men weep over may be meant to save. [ Byron ]

Weep no more, lady, weep no more.
Thy sorrow is in vain;
For violets plucked, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow again. [ Percy ]

Timely advised, the coming evil shun;
Better not do the deed, than weep it done. [ Prior ]

In silence weep, and thy convulsive sorrow
Inward keep. [ Prior ]

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The heart ungalled play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep;
Thus runs the world away. [ William Shakespeare ]

Scorn the proud man that is ashamed to weep. [ Young ]

If folly were grief, every house would weep. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that sings on Friday will weep on Sunday. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. [ Young ]

Dew-drops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun insists on gladness; but at night,
When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. [ Bailey ]

We often weep before we have had time to smile. [ Victor Hugo ]

Death, so called, is a thing that makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. [ Byron ]

Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Women laugh when they can and weep when they will. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We build statues of snow, and weep to see them melt. [ Walter Scott ]

It is of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy. [ Bailey ]

Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let us weep in our darkness - but weep not for him!
Not for him - who, departing, leaves millions in tears!
Not for him - who has died full of honor and years!
Not for him - who ascended Fame's ladder so high.
From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky. [ N. P. Willis ]

Many weep for the sin, while they laugh over the pleasure. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

To weep excessively for the dead, is to affront the living. [ Proverb ]

Weep not for him that dieth; for he sleeps, and is at rest. [ Mrs. Norton ]

How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! [ Jane Porter ]

Women never weep more bitterly than when they weep with spite. [ A. Ricard ]

When we first see the light, we weep; and when we leave it, we groan. [ Proverb ]

This heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why must we first weep before we can love so deep that our hearts ache. [ Richter ]

It is no more sin to see a woman weep, than to see a goose go barefoot. [ Proverb ]

Weep for love, but not for anger; a cold rain will never bring flowers. [ Duncan ]

A holy thing is sleep, on the worn spirit shed, and eyes that wake to weep. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Floral apostles! that in dewy splendor weep without woe, and blush without a crime. [ Horace Smith ]

Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will. [ Socrates ]

O sweet past! sometimes remembrance raises thy long veil, then we weep in recognizing thee! [ Mme. Louise Labe ]

How many women would laugh at the funerals of their husbands, if it were not the custom to weep!

We bury love; forgetfulness grows over it like grass; that is a thing to weep for, not the dead. [ Alexander Smith ]

Thy eye can make the world dark or bright for thee; as thou look'st on it, it will weep or laugh. [ Rückert ]

We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him in the cold ground. [ Shakespeare ]

Well the art thou knowest in soft forgetfulness to steep the eyes which sorrow taught to watch and weep. [ Mrs. Tighe ]

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercyseat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

Do not weep, my dear lady! Your tears are too precious to shed for me; bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. [ Sterne ]

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama. [ Hume ]