On Weeping

1. True maturity in a person arrives weeping.

2. The time has come to sweep away woman's affected tears and bid them farewell.

3. I do not wish to pass on to the new generation that empty nonsense: "men do not weep." Let them know, let them learn: people weep.

4. Beware of such hollow talk as "one cannot weep like a woman, at every word."

5. One cannot give birth without tears, nor receive life without them.

6. Some people are so thoroughly "human" that even when you see them weep, you cannot believe your eyes!

7. A person who weeps at every word is not merely a simple soul!

8. The habit of weeping in secret is a grave addiction—one that a lifetime cannot break.

9. Weeping for the lack of money pales beside weeping for the sake of money itself—a hundred times more terrible!

10. There is no more pointless tears than those shed from listening to what people say. After all, people speak precisely in order to make others weep!

11. In Bangladesh, you will witness the most abundant tears when you visit a house of mourning. A cinema of living grief, truly! Yet not everyone there weeps from sorrow—some weep to conceal their joy!

12. The fortune to weep with happiness comes to a person's life only a handful of times.

13. In marriage, one must weep—this is natural. But what becomes unnatural is when only one among husband and wife is forever the one who weeps.

14. Tears of the moment must be shed in that moment itself. Do not hoard your tears; if you do, you shall pay a steep price.

15. Beware of those who know how to sell their weeping!

16. There is scarcely anything in this world as tender as the tears of waiting.

17. When you can discern the hidden tears of another, you love them.

18. Here is an unpleasant truth: for all that people say, "do not weep, do not weep," most find peace in seeing others weep. Why? Because it is the human way to hide one's own tears behind the tears of another.

19. Even tears have their own language!

20. The saying goes, laugh too much and you must weep—
Perhaps this is no lie at all.