"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
— Richard, Henry VI Part 3
Tropes about wet stuff in eyes.
Compare Sadness Tropes, Gray Rain of Depression.
Contrast Smile Tropes, Happiness Tropes.
Tropes:
- Beautiful Tears: Somehow, I look great when I cry!
- Berserker Tears: I am so angry that I start crying!
- Biting the Handkerchief: I am so sad that I start biting my tissues!
- Bleed 'Em and Weep: I just killed someone... *begins crying*
- Broken Tears: I am losing my mind and I just... start crying!
- Cathartic Crying: I'm okay, I'm okay...*wailing* No, I'm not!
- Couldn't Find a Tissue: WAAAAAHHHHH, I'm crying! Now let me clean my face on... well, it's definitely not a handkerchief...
- Crocodile Tears: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! I am crying! This is just for attention, and sometimes I'm sad already while I do this!
- Cry into Chest: Let me cry into your chest, please!
- Cry Laughing: HAHAHA, that's so funny! *breaks down into tears*
- Crying After Sex: The sex was so good it made me cry!
- Crying a River: Wow, my tears could fill a bathtub at least!
- Crying at Your Birthday Party: It's my party and I'll cry if I want to!
- Crying Critters: Why is this cat crying?
- Crying Indian: I am an Indian and I am crying in reference to a commercial.
- Everybody Cries: You aren't crying alone. You are crying with all of us.
- Fell Asleep Crying: I cried myself to sleep last night because I was sad.
- Giant's Droplet, Human's Shower: I'm so big my tears could act as rain.
- Heartbreak and Ice Cream: The only thing that will cure my sadness is a tub of ice cream.
- He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him: He won't cry nor express grief? I will do it for him.
- Humanizing Tears: I'm usually a jerk, but when I cry it makes the audience see that I might not be so bad.
- I'm Crying, but I Don't Know Why: Why am I crying? There is no reason to cry yet there is one!
- Incriminating Indifference: You did this crime because you aren't showing any kind of emotions right now!
- Inelegant Blubbering: I am so sad I can't even speak English anymore and there is snot running down my nose!
- It's Okay to Cry: An Aesop about how crying or expressing sadness is okay.
- Manly Tears: I am a man and yet I shed tears sometimes.
- Men Don't Cry: Real men don't cry ever because it shows weakness! Men cry too.
- My Eyes Are Leaking: Is this what you humans call sadness?
- Ocular Gushers: I have so many tears it creates a waterfall!
- Onion Tears: Cutting up onions makes you cry.
- Prone to Tears: It is so incredibly easy to make me cry!
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: Pleaaasssssee do something for me because my eyes are huge and I'm shedding tears.
- Running Away to Cry: I can't believe this... I must run away and cry!
- Sand In My Eyes: I am not crying... it's just something is in my eyes.
- Single Tear: It's so beautiful I can only shed one tear...
- Sparkling Stream of Tears: Instead of crying tears, I cry bright sparkles instead.
- Swiss-Army Tears: Crying can solve a lot of problems.
- Tasty Tears: To some people, tears are a delicious treat.
- Tearful Smile: *sniffling* I can't stop smiling! *begins crying*
- Tear Jerker: This work may make you cry because of how sad it is.
- Tears from a Stone: Why is this statue crying? It shouldn't be able to express emotions let alone cry!
- Tears of Awe: It's so wonderfully beautiful, I could cry.
- Tears of Blood: Instead of crying tears... I cry blood or something that isn't tears.
- Tears of Fear: Please help me... I am so scared I could cry.
- Tears of Joy: I am so happy I could cry!
- Tears of Remorse: I did a bad thing and as a result, I cry.
- Tender Tears: You are so kind and thoughtful to me that... that... I can't help but cry!
- Troubled Fetal Position: It's so terrible, I must hug my legs and knees and weep into them!
- Trying Not to Cry: I am not gonna cry... I am not gonna cry... I am not gonna cry...
- Unable to Cry: This event is so grim that I am unable to process it and grieve.
- Your Makeup Is Running: My tears are ruining my makeup!
