You instantly cry

[thebodylovesspring]

Just listening to Abbas slipping through my fingers'and can't avoid crying much to the kids amusement.

Also for me nannas speech to Barbara in the 'Royal family'when she says she just wished to be with her family and not in a home.

Also Daddy my Daddy in the railway children.

Also opening sequence of up

What's your weak point?

Wail.

The end of Marley and Me always makes me howl :(

Loads of these! Howled at the end of Schindler's List last night: all the survivors placing stones on Schindler's grave, knowing that these were real people who has endured such awful things.
Seeing old people counting out pennies at the supermarket till.
ET when he says 'I'll be right here".
The poem "Death of a Son, aged1" by Jon Silkin - remember being saddened by it at school and it's even worse now.
War veterans at any commemorative event. Old, dignified, brave but with tears in their eyes at the waste and loss of lives.
The list goes on....

If you're looking for a way out - Odyssey
Dumbo with his mum
Jenny Agutter Daddy my daddy..........my Dad died one Christmas and it was on TV.
Fall at your feet - Crowded House
Animal Rescue programmes

No one is going to read this now, but I'm surprised at some of the posts and wonder if it's more about personal attachments to a particular song, line, image etc that makes you cry, as I saw a good few listed that I don't feel even remotely sad about, such as the opening scenes of 'Up'.

So, when I list what makes me well up, there will be some that others find odd.

Music:

Billy Joel 'We Will all Go Down Together' (prob not the real name but can't think of proper title)
Sarah McLachlan 'Angel'
Goo Goo Dolls 'Iris'
Creed 'With Arms Wide Open'

TV/Movies:

OBEM, particularly the episode long ago featuring a couple with learning and physical disabilities. When the woman in labour asked if she was allowed to cry I nearly melted. She was panicking about the baby being taken away from her too.

'I Am Sam' with Sean Penn and Dakota Fanning.

'The Pursuit of Happyness' with Will and Jaden Smith.

Other:

Daddies holding their young child's hand or carrying them. I feel privileged to witness their pride.

Anything which suggests abuse towards innocents, such as the elderly, children and animals. I feel so small and useless every time.

The very thought of my parents dying.

I can't name books and songs that make me cry.

However, I cry at the most unlikely things, especially if they are connected to my children.

For example - we are church goers. DD hates going but this week she stood next to me and joined in with the hymns. When I heard her beautiful wee voice I couldn't sing any more for the lump in my throat.

DS has an ASD. He went off on a school residential today without a backwards glance and I cried with pride.

Snow Patrol's Chocolate is one song that does make me cry... it is linked to an event I did that ultimately changed my life.

Oh, and Fix You - blub fest. Linked to DS and DD. I can't fix them and no one can fix me either.

Steel Magnolias; Sally Field slays me.

I watched this the night of (what would turn out to be) the last day of my mum's life. The scene at the hospital, where she strokes her daughter's hand, broke me completely, as it was what we had spent the day doing with mum.
She died early the next morning.
Now I'm all weepy again. It was only the end of April (27/4).

As of tonight, the last episode of Game of Thrones season 4. I knew it was going to be bad but actually watching it.....

Ahh yes 'Fix You' was the second song played at my fiance's funeral. The first was a song I already mentioned 'Angel' by Sarah McLachlan. Both make me think of him and the life I could have and wanted to have had.

Cry of a newly born baby, even reading about it makes me well up.

So many of these already mentioned, especially flashmobs, spontaneous rounds of applause, group singing etc. it's just so human ?!

I see Boomerwang got there before me, The Pursuit of Happyness completely floored me and DH, the scene where they have to sleep in the toilets had us both sobbing.

It's strange, I used to enjoy and sometimes actively seek out things to give me a good cry. I don't anymore, I avoid it wherever possible. Maybe it's because I'm getting older

Just remembered the film The Mission, people were sobbing at the end of that in the cinema (it was pre-children for me so I was tougher and confined myself to silent floods of tears).

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

Hemingway's "Story in Six Words":

For sale, baby shoes. Never worn.

Oh God yes, Dawn and Tim in The Office! Happy tears though.

That West Wing mention made me think of the one after the actor who played Leo died in RL. Everyone had shock and grief etched on their faces for real. It was desperately sad and makes me well up to think about it still.

Springheeled, I hadn't thought about 'Autumn Days' for DECADES but it's taken me right back. I used to love it. 'And the silk inside a chestnut shell.' Such beautiful words.

snakeandpygmy

fairnotfair

well, that's me off this morning already.
I was already feeling 'on the edge' but those quotes (the first of w hich I knew, the second of which I didn't) have just pushed me right over!

American Beauty, when Carolyn buries her face in Lester's shirts, just after he's been shot dead.

"Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings"

"atta boy Clarence"

sobs

This was a runner up in a short story competition a few years back and I still remember it...

Runners-up
John Xero, Norwich

Simon wrote on the misted window pane with his finger. I miss you. Four weeks since Michelle had died. Four weeks since her last message. A tear slid down his cheek as he watched the words fade. He huffed on the window to bring them back. I miss you too.

"Days" by Kirsty MacColl, made even sadder after her premature death.

In 'Casablanca', where the German soldiers are singing German nationalist songs, and everybody else starts singing La Marseillaise to drown them out. I have tears in my eyes typing this. I am not French.

It's even more moving when you realise that many of the actors and extras were actually refugees from Europe (and the director was a Jew from Hungary, although he had been working in the US prior to the Naziz coming to power).

• Nazis

I'm not trying to make them cool-in-the-90s.

Daddy my Daddy,
Jessies' song.
Two little boys.
The circle of light
The Last Post
The news during the D Day commemorations when the old soldiers were remembering their fallen commrades- I was inconsolable
Stop the Traffic poem in three weddings
Liam Nesson in Love Actually and Emma Thompson in the same film.
Bernard Cribbins as Wilf in Dr Who saying goodbye to the Dr
Bridge over troubled water
Dead poets society, when they stand on the desks
Beaches

Various kids books, including Goodnight Mr Tom- I was warned by my class against reading War Horse, they told me I wouldn't cope.

Basically I'm a sobbing mess a lot of the time- I just read the lyric to slipping through my fingers whilst watching my daughter play- I'm still crying now!!

Oh God, Dead Poets Society – 'O Captain, my Captain.' 'Thank you, boys.'

That Neruda poem (or Rilke?): 'My feet will want to walk to where you are standing.'

The bit in Tangled with her parents getting ready to release the lanterns on her 18th birthday.

Large parts of the film "The Mission" and the soundtrack to it.

Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte.

...and many more but I should do some work now!