Tears Quotes
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A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven (Quote by - Charles R. Swindoll)
This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger. (Quote by - Shelley Fabares)
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. (Quote by - Bob Hope)
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of Earth, overlaying our hard hearts. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world. (Quote by - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears. (Quote by - Guy Finley)
Tears are the noble language of the eye. (Quote by - Robert Herrick)
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape. (Quote by - Mary Schmich)
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away. (Quote by - Kim Wilde)
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. (Quote by - Euripides)
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside. (Quote by - Ingrid Bergman)
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears. (Quote by - Charles Simeon)
We weep when we are born, Not when we die! (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. (Quote by - Alfred de Musset)
I shine in tears like the sun in April. (Quote by - Cyril Tourneur)
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears. (Quote by - Burt Bacharach)
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. (Quote by - Sophocles)
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears. (Quote by - Dorothy Dix)
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears. (Quote by - Steven Tyler)
Accept these grateful tears! for thee thy flow, For thee, that ever felt another's woe! (Quote by - Homer)
Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that's gone: Violets plucked the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again. (Quote by - John Fletcher)
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. (Quote by - Ethel Merman)
The busy have no time for tears. (Quote by - Lord Byron )
For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. (Quote by - Francois Rabelais)
Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right; immediately. (Quote by - Sam Slick)
What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his chain? The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain, That starts at once--bright pure--from Pity's mine, Already polish'd by the hand divine! (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. (Quote by - Judy Garland )
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. (Quote by - Anne Bronte)
And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene. (Quote by - Christine Lahti)
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. (Quote by - Bette Midler)
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. (Quote by - Edith Piaf)
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town. (Quote by - Paul Verlaine)
Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep. (Quote by - Bible)
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. (Quote by - Marguerite de Valois)
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. (Quote by - Paul Simon)
When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears. (Quote by - Dionysius Cato)
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen. (Quote by - Jill Clayburgh)
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning )
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. (Quote by - Seneca)
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
There is a tear for all who die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. (Quote by - Amelia Barr)
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. (Quote by - Thomas Kyd)
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. (Quote by - George William Russell)
They'll take everything, even your tears. (Quote by - George Foreman)
There are times when God asks nothing of his children except silence, patience and tears. (Quote by - C S Robinson)
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep." (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic. (Quote by - Ryan White)
Nothing dries sooner than tears. (Quote by - Samuel Richardson)
Pearls mean tears. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
Nothing dries sooner than a tear. (Quote by - Cicero)
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. (Quote by - Clarissa Pinkola Estes)
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. (Quote by - Martin Short)
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew. (Quote by - Letitia Landon)
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. (Quote by - Louis Kronenberger)
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray )
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. (Quote by - Isak Dinesen)
In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears. (Quote by - Jean Paul)
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. (Quote by - Ralph Ransom)
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. (Quote by - Jimmy Breslin)
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. (Quote by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it? (Quote by - John Davidson)
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. (Quote by - Ludwig van Beethoven )
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters. (Quote by - John Sexton)
I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater. (Quote by - Estelle Parsons)
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly. (Quote by - Loretta Young)
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. (Quote by - Max Beckmann)
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. (Quote by - Maurice Maeterlinck)
Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears. (Quote by - Dennis Eckersley)
I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
I wonder at the idleness of tears. (Quote by - Lizette Woodworth Reese)
She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking; But there is something when man's eye appears Wet, still more disagreeable and striking. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
We look through gloom and storm-drift Beyond the years: The soul would have no rainbow Hard the eyes no tears. (Quote by - John Vance Cheney)
No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. (Quote by - Erasmus Darwin)
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year. (Quote by - Camille Claudel)
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery. (Quote by - John Cleveland)
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. (Quote by - Arthur Golden)
Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. (Quote by - Eileen Mayhew)
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. (Quote by - Julie Burchill)
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. (Quote by - William Gilmore Simms)
Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears! (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
Tears are the silent language of grief. (Quote by - Voltaire)
If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. (Quote by - Horace)
Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters. (Quote by - Jo Bonner)
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'. (Quote by - Claude Vorilhon)
And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized. (Quote by - Jackie DeShannon)
Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry? (Quote by - Kirsten Dunst )
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels. (Quote by - St. Bernard)
Words that weep, and tears that speak. (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. (Quote by - James Thurber)
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. (Quote by - Edith Wharton)
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew? (Quote by - John Dryden)
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Quote by - Francis J. Braceland)
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile. (Quote by - Reba McEntire)
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad. (Quote by - Zhang Ziyi)
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home. (Quote by - Candice Bergen)
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. (Quote by - Alfred Adler )
And weep the more, because I weep in vain. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. (Quote by - Saint Teresa)
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em. (Quote by - Thomas Otway)
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. (Quote by - Saint Teresa of Avila)
Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there. (Quote by - Andy Richter)
And tears are heard within the harp I touch. (Quote by - Petrarch)
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years. (Quote by - Jean Paul)
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. (Quote by - Alex Tan)
Never a tears bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry. (Quote by - Bret Harte)
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. (Quote by - Alfred Douglas)
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. (Quote by - Alvin Ailey)
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. (Quote by - Leigh Hunt)
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60. (Quote by - Linda Evans)
A child of those tears. (Quote by - Saint Aurelius Augustine)
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. (Quote by - Jewish Proverb)
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. (Quote by - Laura Ingalls Wilder)
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. (Quote by - Giuseppe Verdi)
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. (Quote by - John Vance Cheney)
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do. (Quote by - Frank Luntz)
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate. (Quote by - Sallust)
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men. (Quote by - George P. Baker)
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.' (Quote by - Billy Graham)
Tears at times have the weight of speech. (Quote by - Ovid)
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. (Quote by - Georg Buchner)
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. (Quote by - Kin Hubbard)
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. (Quote by - Samuel Richardson)
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. (Quote by - Alfred Austin)
Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him. (Quote by - Rip Taylor)
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. (Quote by - Edward Fitzgerald)
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free. (Quote by - Richard V. Allen)
