Joey Lauren Adams

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

American Actress

Samuel Beckett

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Irish Playwright

Khalil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Lebanese Poet

Victor Hugo

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

French Author

Yoko Ono

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

American Artist

William Cullen Bryant

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

American Poet

Lord Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

British Poet

Jean Anouilh

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.

French Playwright

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

British Statesman

Dante Alighieri

Italian Poet

Weep often indicates a deep level of emotion more intense than just crying.

Emotional Intensity

'Weep' can be used for quiet tears, not always loud sobbing.

Silent Sorrow

'Weep' isn't only for sadness; it can express overwhelming positive emotions.

Positive Scenarios

When 'weep' refers to liquids, it suggests a slow and steady release, not a gush.

Slow Release

In medical or scientific contexts, 'weep' describes the discharge from something like a wound.

Medical Context

'Weep' can be used metaphorically to describe an expression of deep feelings, not just crying.

Metaphorical Use

In literature, 'weep' is used to add emotional depth to descriptions and narratives.

Literary Expression

 just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow. I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this,

A kinder, gentler...

 Those rearing clouds begin to neigh a whole universe of auricular cities. Listen if it rains while regret and disdain weep to an ancient music. Listen to the bonds fall off which hold you above and below." Each calligram is intended to allow readers to unchain themselves from the regular experience of poetry,

The poet who painted...

 The accused protested her innocence, but it wasn't enough. She was tried and found guilty. That Vestal's death was meant to protect the city, but Licinia weeps for what has been lost and for what she knows now. Her own path was paved by the death of another, and her life could be taken just as easily

Who were the Vestal...

 The gas stings Iris, and suddenly, she can't help it, she starts weeping uncontrollably. These reflex tears are different from the basal tears that Iris is used to. Because they're designed to wash away harmful substances, or particles, they're released in much larger amounts,

Why do we cry? The three...

 But now the army is back to bury the dead with full military honors. As he helps in the task, he can’t help wondering whether the bones he handles belonged to someone he knew. Several times he wants to weep aloud, but he pushes on with the task.

A day in the life of a...

 and well done the toilet paper tree the African weeping wattle and is a very important tree our cheerful for shade it is browsed upon the pods will give you a bad tummy if you eat them and the shade element that it brings them and just in

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 of this amazing show? And when we did, the whole audience collectively exhaled, and a few people actually wept, and then they filled the auditorium with the peaceful boom of their applause. And I remember thinking in that moment

Karima Bennoune: The...

 We announced to the world that we know what these streaks are. It's liquid water. These craters are weeping during the summer. Liquid water is flowing down these craters. So what are we going to do now --

3 moons and a planet...

 feet are totally wept they could almost be flippers so to think this might be the alpha male and female as to the team's footage will help Fernando to identify family members an important

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 leaves and the withered petals and the waters from your fountain and the wind left and my soul wept and said what have you done with the garden that was

Weep

To cry or shed tears because of sadness, pain or sorrow.

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To exude water or other liquids, typically slowly.

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To express feelings of unhappiness or sadness.

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Emotional Intensity

Silent Sorrow

Positive Scenarios

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