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Quotes About Tears

I am a funny as well as an emotional person. The comedian inside me cries at times while watching a movie.
~ Bharti Singh
Elle pleurait des mots qui se mélangeaient les uns aux autres.
~ René Barjavel
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
~ Rene Descartes
O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!
~ Richard Baxter
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there are words not made with lungs
~ Richard Crashaw
She's somewhere in the sunlight strong, / Her tears are in the falling rain, / She calls me in the wind's soft song, / And with the flowers she comes again.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
Laughter is often a more complex and thoughtful emotional response than tears, though we seem to believe that being moved to tears is somehow more noble
~ Richard Russo
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of Uncle Tom's Children. When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I found that I had written a book which even bankers' daughters could read and weep over and feel good about. I swore to myself that if I ever wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it would be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears.
~ Richard Wright
They lived on the surface of their days; their smiles were surface smiles, and their tears were surface tears. Negroes lived a truer and deeper life than they, but I wished that Negroes, too, could live as thoughtlessly, serenely as they.
~ Richard Wright
Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.
~ Rick Riordan
Hearthstone snapped his fingers for attention. I'm glad too, he signed. He patted the bag of runes at his belt. Stupid cages were magic-proof. Blitzen was crying a lot. I was not, Blitzen protested, signing along. You were. I was not, Hearthstone said. You were. At that point, the ASL conversation deteriorated into the two of them poking each other in the chest.
~ Rick Riordan
Her eyes were puffy from crying , but she managed to say he was the bravest friend I've ever had. He... Then she saw me. Her face went blood red. He's right there!
~ Rick Riordan
I remember when I realized … when I knew that this was more than a friendship.' That made Nico smile despite himself. 'I remember my moment, too.' Will's eyes filled with tears. 'I think mine is different than yours.' 'But I know mine happened first,' Nico said. 'Tell me,' Gorgyra said, moving closer to Nico and Will. 'Tell me one more story.' And Nico felt another string start to unravel.
~ Rick Riordan
The only way to stop the tears was to keep drinking the whisky.
~ Kate Atkinson
She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. She waited in vain. She saw no pictures of solitude, of hope, of longing, or of despair. But the very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body. She trembled, she was choking, and the tears blinded her.
~ Kate Chopin
He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A small puddle had formed at his feet. I am not exaggerating. The king, it seemed, was intent on crying himself a river.
~ Kate DiCamillo
He played for over an hour, and I felt a peace steal over my soul, and yes, I felt the bruises in my heart. But to be bruised is to be human, to be coursing with blood. For bruises are caused by blood spilled under the skin. They are the tears that bleed inside.
~ Kathryn Lasky
I blinked and wiped my hand over my face. My fingers came back damp. I glanced across the room and saw my reflection in the mirror, hair snarled, mascara running, face streaked with tears. Yep, you look like shit, Adam said. And I took plenty of pictures, which I will keep until an appropriate opportunity for blackmail arises.
~ Kelley Armstrong
He bent down and his kiss was so full of longing that tears pricked my eyes again. When another one rolled down my cheek, he wiped it away. "No more of that," he said. "I'm just--" "I know." His lips moved to my ear. "So am I.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Merthin stood and watched with tears pouring down his face.
~ Ken Follett
And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the tears and terror of the brutal days and endless nights where time alone would rule.
~ Ken Wilber
Tears and complaints - the means which I have called water power - can be an extremely useful weapon for disturbing cooperation and reducing other to a condition of slavery.
~ Alfred Adler
The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
~ Peter Gabriel
I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"
~ Roseanne Barr