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Quotes About Tears

He was overwheled by the love he felt for her; tears filled his eyes and the ache in his throat ran deep into his chest. He ran down the hill to the river, through the light rain until the pain faded like fog mist. He stood and watched the rainy dawn, and he knew he would find her again.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.
~ lesser elizabeth
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
~ Lev Grossman
Pushkin could cry hot tears, and he who can weep can hope. "I want to live, so that I may think and suffer," he says; and it seems as if the word "to suffer," which is so beautiful in the poem, just fell in accidentally, because there was no better rhyme in Russian for "to die.
~ Lev Shestov
"I weep for you," the Walrus said:"I deeply sympathize."With sobs and tears he sorted outThose of the largest size,Holding his pocket-handkerchiefBefore his streaming eyes.
~ Lewis Carroll
the only sign of where Stephen had been murdered was a dark stain among the rocks. He could see the followers carefully, sorrowfully, moving his body toward an open burial cave. Linux remained apart from those grieving by the cave's opening. His eyes were dry, yet his heart felt wrenched by tears only he could sense. Or perhaps not, for a pair of men approached, one of them the rugged apostle called Peter. "A tragic day, and a glorious day," the man said softly.
~ Janette Oke
Me acostaba llorando, me despertaba llorando y me pasaba el día escondiéndome de la gente, para poder llorar.
~ Javier Cercas
Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support.
~ Jay McInerney
What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced
~ Jean Baudrillard
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
~ Jean Cocteau
We sat under the mango tree and I was holding his hand when he began to cry. Drops fell on my hand like the water from the dripstone in the filter in our yard. Then I began to cry too and when I felt my own tears on my hand I thought, 'Now perhaps we're married. 'Yes, certainly, now we're married,' I thought.
~ Jean Rhys
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?
~ Jeanette Winterson
Her favourite song was 'God Has Blotted Them Out,' which was meant to be about sins, but really was about anyone who had ever annoyed her, which was everyone. She just didn't like anyone and she just didn't like life. Life was a burden to be carried as far as the grave and then dumped. Life was a Vale of Tears. Life was a pre-death experience.
~ Jeanette Winterson
From time to time I yawn so widely that tears roll down my cheek.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.
~ Nick Flynn
If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.
~ Cat Stevens
For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
~ Charles Kingsley
Men must work, and women must weep.
~ Charles Kingsley
Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk.
~ Jesse Jackson
You know, when I was a kid, I used to cry every day, like, when I was like, you know, 7 through 11 or 6 through 11, to the point where my brother and sisters would like - there was an ongoing joke where they would make me cry to keep my streak alive of crying every day.
~ Neal Brennan
When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.
~ Sholom Aleichem
She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.
~ Tommy Manville
Antoinette felt a pain in her chest that seemed to be a lump made of all the tears she had cried over the years. Where do they come from, she wondered. Is there a sac made of a thin membrane that our grief enters and becomes water, then, once filled, it finally bursts, releasing an unstoppable torrent?
~ Unknown
Sometimes the fog in his eyes would clear, that fog caused by the pain and the killers of pain, and when it cleared, I saw regret and fear in those eyes swimming with tears and I was convinced that this was it, this was the end, this was surely the end.
~ Tony Parsons