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Quotes About Tears

The agony and overwhelming sadness of being alone... Where nights seem to last forever and tears just keep streaming down my face.
~ Unknown
When I'm alone, I think. When I think, I remember. When I remember, I feel pain. When I feel pain, I cry. When I cry, I can't stop.
~ Unknown
Nights are sometimes the worst part of a day! You lay awake on your bed staring at the ceiling and relive each and every happy memory of that painful past...You wish that those people, who meant the world to you, would come back once again and turn your life into that happy fairytale again..But, just then a teardrop rolls down your eyes and make you realize that they are all false hopes!
~ Unknown
Don't be discouraged by the people around you. Tell yourself your heart is braver than your eyes. Tears can give relief but it's your heart who decides how much tears is enough for you to cry on.
~ Unknown
You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Who shall tell the lady's griefWhen her Cat was past relief?Who shall number the hot tearsShed o'er her, beloved for years?Who shall say the dark dismayWhich her dying caused that day?
~ Christina Rossetti
Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die
~ Nikolai Gogol
Tears don't bring people back." Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips."Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are for us. So that we can remember and celebrate and miss them and feel human.
~ C.J. Redwine, Deception
There is a phantom that flies with the banshees. It strangles the throat, pierces the heart and consumes the body with pain that only time and tears can expel.
~ Unknown
A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.
~ R. S. Thomas
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
~ Lord Byron
Howl pointed a shaky hand up toward the canopy of his bed. "That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, again.' I keep trying," he said with great sadness. "But I brought it on myself by making a bargain some years ago, and I know I shall never be able to love anyone properly now." The water running out of Howl's eyes was definitely tears now.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Joanna has an unmanageable lump in her throat and wonders why it's always the happy memories that make her cry.
~ Unknown
The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.
~ Diane Setterfield
The tears I gratified him with were fake ones. Ones that set off my green eyes the way diamonds set off emeralds. And it worked. If you dazzled a man with green eyes, he will be so hypnotized that he won't notice there is someone inside the eyes spying on him. – Vida Winters Page 268
~ Diane Setterfield
Tears can be good. They can cleanse us form our misery.
~ DiAnn Mills
The Trail of Tears has gone down in American history as cruel and infamous. It certainly was, although its actual perpetrator was not "America" but rather the Jackson Democrats.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Mais, vrai, J'ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I'd always hoped that someday I'd be able to use it.
~ Donna Tartt
Butthole," he sobbed.
~ Donna Tartt
Me invade una nostalgia largamente olvidada de aquel apacible y grave reino del espíritu; y flota entonces con imprecisas notas mi canción susurrante, como arpa eolia; un escalofrío me sacude la lágrima va en pos de las lágrimas, el severo corazón se siente dulce y blando.. veo lejano aquello que poseo, y lo perdido se me hace realidad.
~ Unknown
Remember that the road to healing winds through pain, anguish, sickness and many tears.
~ Jack Canfield
I'd slink back to my room and curl up on the bed like a fish-hook and cry until I was rusty.
~ Jack Gantos
his own crumpled handkerchief on me. I sniffed and dabbed at my eyes fiercely. I told myself I was only tearful because I was tired. I knew Diamond was looking at me anxiously.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
I sniffed and dabbed at my eyes fiercely. I told myself I was only tearful because I was tired.
~ Jacqueline Wilson