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Quotes About Tears

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
How easy it was to slip back into the comfort of one's own life, even into one's own worries and fears, and to unintentionally forget. Tears rose to her eyes. Her throat tightened. Oh, Lord. forgive me....Help me to be more grateful.
~ Tamera Alexander
The artist has been kind to me," she said softly, not looking at him. "The artist drew what he saw. What he sees even now," he said. A single tear slipped down her cheek. "I wish this were easier, Jake." "Nothing is easy, Aletta. At least nothing worth having.
~ Tamera Alexander
You just let the tears come, ma'am. You got every reason under heaven to be cryin'. And just cuz don't mean you don't trust the good Lawd no more either. Jesus knows that.
~ Tamera Alexander
About your easy heads my prayers I said with syllables of clay. What gift, I asked, shall I bring now Before I weep and walk away? Take, they replied, the oak and laurel. Take our fortune of tears and live Like a spendthrift lover. All we ask Is the one gift you cannot give.
~ Tana French
The real achievement of the script and the people making it is that they throw the kitchen sink at us... and it all works. Daleks, Anne Robinson, the end of a complicated storyline, tears, jokes, action, more Daleks, romance, pathos, satire, an outrageous cheat and more Daleks than we have ever seen even in drawings we did as eight year olds. And then David Tennant shows up, and we realise we ain't seen nothing yet.
~ Tat Wood
I took his hand and pressed it hard. I could not bear to look at him any longer, so I closed my eyes and put his hand against my cheek. I cried with him. I felt his fingers grow wet with my tears, but I kept his hand there.
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
Then, I didn't know that our bodies can know things before they happen, so when my eyes suddenly filled with tears, I thought this was the unpredictable effect of emotion.
~ Tayari Jones
He stood again and cried, not like a baby, but in a way only a grown man can cry, from the bottom of his feet up through his torso and finally through his mouth. When a man wails like that you know it's all the tears that he was never allowed to shed, from Little League disappointment to teenage heartbreak, all the way to whatever injured his spirit just last year.
~ Tayari Jones
blessings, but curses. And this afflicted me. When I was drained of tears, but not of sorrow, I discovered I could speak no more. But when I find him whom I seek, not only will the curse against my people be lifted, I shall speak once more in rejoicing.
~ Taylor Caldwell
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
~ Ted Dekker
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
~ Madeleine Albright
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
~ Tommy Manville
There is no greater feeling than when a groom turns to see his bride and has tears in his eyes because she is so beautiful.
~ Tim Allen
Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.
~ German proverb
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
~ Bruce Lee
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Yes, I'm a nice man and I enjoy babies. I'm a sensitive guy. I held a baby the other day and it was the first time either of us cried.
~ Garry Shandling
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
~ James Thurber
There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
~ Edward Abbey
I learn something I didn't know about the human body : if your mom cries, you cry.
~ Ned Vizzini
Now Mom is crying, and I learn something I didn't know about the human body: if your mom cries, you cry.
~ Ned Vizzini
And I always look like I'm about to cry.
~ Ned Vizzini
If one evening you feel sad enough to cry, look up. Your tears will not fall and the starry night may bring joy to your soul.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson