Is there anything that instantly makes you cry?

I don’t full out cry because of this, but seeing another person with wet and glossy/teary eyes gets mine watery, too.

Coincidentally, it’s also a Disney film for me too; specifically, one of the last scenes in “Beauty and the Beast”, when Belle believes that the Beast is dead and sheds that one tear right before the last rose-petal drops… That scene gets me every single time.

All sorts of stuff. I’m an emotional guy. Here’s what first comes to mind:

-Thinking about what it used to be like for little type 1 diabetic kids, and their families, who essentially received a death sentence upon diagnosis. Also, what it must have been like when the first insulin was administered in the 1920s. Like corpses coming back to life. I’m about to cry right now.

-The line, ”‘Forward,’ he cried, from the rear, and the front rank died; The general sat as the lines on the map moved from side to side” from “Us and Them” by Pink Floyd.

Besides slicing white onions, nothing makes me cry faster than the movies, including these three scenes:

1) The son-father baseball-tossing at the end of “Field of Dreams”
2) Scooge and his daughter-in law dancing toward the end of the Brisith version of “A Christmas Life”
3) The whole town turning out to save George Bailey at the end of “It’s a Wonderful Life”

Animal movies i.e. Lassie, Free Willy, The Yearling, Black Beauty. I try not to watch them for that reason, unless I feel like spending a half hour a crying mess.

Yep, anything involving an animal in distress. Animals are truly innocent and their suffering is heartbreaking.

A swift kick in the nuts.

Every time I hear Obama is giving another speech.

The song Lullabye by Billy Joel and the scene in “Mr. Holland’s Opus” where he sings and signs at his son’s school .

I agree with @Coloma. Animal cruelty or suffering. Or animal loyalty. Or people loving animals.

Pretty much anything animal related has the potential to make me teary eyed. Just this morning, it was this.

@jca Hachi: A Dog’s Tale. I was a blubbering mess.

The animal cruelty commercials, when Mufasa dies in The Lion King, the song “You Can Let Go Now Daddy,” and the end of the last episode of my favorite show Queer as Folk.

One of the songs from Mahler’s Kindertoten Lieder. (Songs about the death of children) It’s a mother whose two children have died and she sings, looking out the kitchen window at the nearby hills: I often think that they’ll be home soon. It’s a lovely sunny day and they’ve just forgotten the time. They’ll be home soon.
I would love to be able to sing well enough to do justice to that song, but even if my voice was good enough, the words always make me weep.

Those ASPCA commercials. I have to turn the channel or I’m a mess for hours.
Lots of animal lovers here. How did you guys do with Marley and Me? :0(

Just out of curiosity, does anybody else lose it at the end of Armageddon?

Nothing makes me cry, at least not right off the bat. Doesn’t mean I can’t feel sad or nothing though.

@Katniss Oh, that’s another one of mine. Marley and Me absolutely KILLS me!

The last time I watched it, we had just gotten a puppy that was driving me crazy. After the movie, I just wanted to cuddle her for hours.

Yes, those damn animal commercials definitely make a hole in my heart,

The end of the movie Grave of the Fireflies.

Yes. About eight years ago, my brother-in-law and his (evil) wife treated me viciously. They were angry about many things in their own lives; none of it had anything to do with me, but I happened to be in close proximity. They said all sorts of malicious things, none of it true. I hadn’t done anything—nothing whatsoever—to deserve this.

When Paul and I got married, I “adopted” his brother as my own. I’d always treated him warmly and been kind and generous to him.

I really didn’t know that I could be so hurt. Paul said he’s never seen me cry and sob so much or with such abandon. I know that BIL regretted what he’d done, but he never called or wrote to apologize.

It was a long time ago, and I’ve moved past it. But, I’ll never trust BIL again, and I think that his wife gives c*nts a bad name. If I let myself think about that incident for more than just a few minutes, I’ll start to cry again.

I discovered “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” when I was 14-years-old, and I’ve read it about once a year since then. There are certain moments in that book that always reduce me to a blubbering mess—every time!

When I think back to Mother’s Day, when my mom had her stroke…remembering how bad she looked in the emergency room…and how she kept trying to communicate with us, but we couldn’t understand what she was saying.

I’m a big sook. Films, songs, seeing someone hurt. Reading a news story that’s sad. Stories. I’ve mentioned here before, I tear up when I hear an ambulance siren.

Stories of animal abuse always make me cry. There is a programme on in the UK at the moments called For The Love Of Dogs which is about Battersea Dogs Home and that makes me cry ever week!

@Leanne1986 Paul O Grady lightens the mood though, he genuinely cares about those pooches.

@ucme I love him!

Anything with animals abused, mistreated or getting too old, like Marley & me, just can’t do it. Old people get me, too, like sitting at bus stops or reading about them dying in a nursing home with no family, instant heartbreak for me.

@Leanne1986 : Oh man, animal abuse gets me too. There was a poster in the Paris metro when I was there last summer that made me tear up every time I saw it. (Translation: “An animal doesn’t cry. It suffers in silence.”)

Also, reading history makes me cry often and fills me with metta. I think I’m in the right profession.

@KNOWITALL Oh yeah, old people in sad situations can make me cry too. Last year on Remembrance day I was driving home through town at about 9pm at night and there was an old man on his own with all his medals and it made me think of the lyrics “And have you seen the old man outside the seaman’s mission, memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears. In our winter city, the rain cries a little pity for one more forgotten hero and a world that doesn’t care” from Streets of London by Ralph McTell. That song makes me cry a lot. I’m hoping that the old man I saw was walking home from a bloody good knees up at the pub and had a partner or family waiting for him at home!

@Leanne1986 : Wow, that is sad. Last year I started crying when I saw an old man standing by himself at Paris Pride.

@Leanne1986 My private dream is to run a hippy-like nursing home, letting them try new therapies and be relaxed and feel loved, eat mostly what they like, etc… Or a driving service catering to oldsters that just need rides to the dr and errands, it’s amazing how many older people here are just abandoned. It’s sickening really.

@bookish1 Wow, I bet he had an interesting story. :(

@bookish1 That would have made me feel sad too. I think @KNOWITALL hit the nail on the head, old people are likely to have interesting stories that lead them to that very moment and I always feel sad if I think that they have no one to share their stories with.