TEARS QUOTES
quotations about tears
Tears are the safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.
ALBERT SMITH
attributed, The Biblical Museum
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
ANNE LAMOTT
Salon, November 3, 2014
There you go ... let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.
SHANNON HALE
Princess Academy
The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.
ROBERT DODSLEY
The Economy of Human Life
Oh! think not that my eyes are dry,
Because you mark no falling tears:
There flows a river deep and dark,
Whose waters ebb not with the years.
ALBERT LAIGHTON
"The Veiled Grief"
There never was a mask so gay, but some tears where shed behind it.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
The Complete Works of L. E. Landon
There she shook
The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
And clamour moisten'd.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
CHARLES DICKENS
Great Expections
And my tears flow like the ocean
As they floated in the breeze
They were falling in slow motion
And they brought me to my knees
CLEAN BANDIT
"Tears"
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
C. S. LEWIS
The Silver Chair
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1757
What I should say
My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,
Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part III
I don't know how to experience an emotion unless it's accompanied by hot tears flying down my cheeks.
KELLY GREEN
"I'll Never Tell My Son To Stop Crying, Because He Has A Right To His Own Feelings", Romper, May 30, 2017
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
attributed, Day's Collacon
O, banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.
JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
Tears are Nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed with them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
For every laugh, there should be a tear.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, The New York Times, November 2, 2001
Tears are the noble language of eye;
And when true love of words is destitute,
The eyes by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.
ROBERT HERRICK
"Tears are Tongues", Hesperides, Or Works Both Human and Divine
What's interesting, to the extent male tears are ever that interesting, is the nature of the response from the Menfolk.
BOB PROEHL
"Sorry, crybaby fanboys: Geek culture was never the white-male safe space of your fantasies", Salon, June 8, 2017
Scripture talks about life as a "valley of tears," and so it often is. But it is in the midst of tears and darkness that the deepest faith develops. Wherever and whenever miracles don't happen, we have an opportunity to allow faith to take root in our souls, and it is precisely this faith that has the power to work the deepest miracle of all, the one that happens quietly inside our own hearts.
ANN SPANGLER
When You Need a Miracle