As the poet Heather Christle writes in “The Crying Book,” humans are continuously producing “basal” tears, to lubricate our eyes, while “irritant” tears flush out foreign objects.

Theodore Roosevelt was seen to cry in public, and Jeffrey Kotter quotes other US presidents who have done the same, including Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and even George Bush, senior.

When you're feeling alone, heartbroken or a little blue, read these sad quotes about life and love. Find comfort in these sadness quotes love, loss and pain.

In one striking passage, Christle quotes a psychologist, writing to W. E. B. Du Bois in 1905, who inquires if “the negro sheds tears” at all. The book draws some voltage from the coincidence ...

Reiner’s story in The New York Times quotes research: “From infancy through age 4 or 5, boys are more emotive than girls. ... Those tears are healing tears. Crying can improve mood, ...

A new study adds to evidence suggesting that people's perceptions of others' tears as sincere or manipulative likely depend ...

When tears become messengers. Lisa Thornton, a 34-year-old marketing director from Atlanta, couldn’t understand why she kept crying during her morning commute.

Almost all, if not all, of us have cried tears of grief when someone we love dies … we cry for ourselves and for the others left behind. We know that even Christ wept (John 11:35) when he was ...

A new study adds to evidence suggesting that people’s perceptions of others’ tears as sincere or manipulative likely depends ...

But we found that tears can also invite scorn or suspicion regarding the crying person’s motives . . . The way tears are judged by others is affected by many factors, including the gender of ...

Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. ... If tears arise, don’t pretend all is “okay,” and if you are not crying, no need to feign tears. 2.