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Quotes About Tears

If I am not here' said Giovanni, both vindictive and near tears, 'by the time you come back again, I will be at home. You remember where that is - ? It is near a zoo.
~ James Baldwin
The sky Scorched by the sun, Weeps Fecund tears.
~ James Clavell
His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended, scalding tears rolled out of a fountain that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks that had oftener felt the storms of heaven, than any testimonials of weakness.
~ James Fenimore Cooper
She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.
~ James Frey
We can never underestimate the emotionality of 'This Is Us.' Just when you think you don't have another tear to cry, we will find a way. We will find all of your tears. We will dig down deep, and we will yank them out, whether you like it or not.
~ Chris Sullivan
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.
~ George William Russell
I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.
~ Dorothea Dix
We men we are so sensitive and we have been placed in a bad role. It's unfair that we're shown without tears, without feelings. My job is to change that stereotype.
~ Kim Bodnia
Joy turns tears into laughter.Hope turns mourning into gladness.Wisdom turns tragedy into fortune.Faith turns defeat into triumph.Love turns enmity into friendship.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
In the piquancy of tranquil tears... a much needed attributefor purifying a fervent prayer…
~ Dblankportrait
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
~ George Santayana
After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
~ William Wordsworth
It's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?
~ Charles Bukowski
White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.
~ Claude Aveline
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
~ Denis Diderot
His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart.
~ Terri Blackstock
I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying.
~ Terri Guillemets
Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.
~ Terri Guillemets
I like the snot to run a little, the tears to accumulate a bit before reaching for the handkerchief. Then I know I'm really crying. Crying just isn't crying unless it's messy.
~ Terri Guillemets
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Pray to the Lord humbly, then, for this gift of sorrow; say, in the words of the sacred author, Lord, allot me for food, for drink, only the full measure of my tears.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Love is only satisfied with what is infinite. In our love of God we taste this, and in suffering we long not only for more love, but for infinite love, a love that includes every tear ever shed and every loss ever felt.
~ Thomas Acklin
ON ANGER: "It is the base and vile bramble, the fruit of the earth's curse, that tears and rends what is next to it." Thomas Adams
~ Thomas Adams