“Crying is cleansing. There’s a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.”– Dionne Warwick Related Quotes “It’s a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”– W. H. Auden “Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.”– Ibrahim Babangida “Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.”– Christina Rossetti