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Quotes About Tears

Es sind tausend Tropfenin einer Weltnur für uns gemachtTausend Tropfenwenn der Himmel weintund man dennoch lacht
~ Nina Hrusa
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.
~ Washington Irving
Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.
~ William Arthur Ward
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o'er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.
~ John Flavel
You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.
~ Meat Loaf
Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
~ William Shakespeare
Women's weapon, water-drops
~ William Shakespeare
Let not women's weapons, waterdrops,Stain my man's cheeks!
~ William Shakespeare
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am boundUpon a wheel of fire, that mine own tearsDo scald like molten lead.
~ William Shakespeare
To weep is to make less the depth of grief.
~ William Shakespeare
The big round tearsCours'd one another down his innocent noseIn piteous chase.
~ William Shakespeare
And if the boy have not a woman's giftTo rain a shower of commanded tears,An onion will do well for such a shift.
~ William Shakespeare
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
The clouds that gather round the setting sunDo take a sober coloring from an eyeThat hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;Another race hath been, and other palms are won.Thanks to the human heart by which we live,Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,To me the meanest flower that blows can giveThoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~ William Wordsworth
I have slept Weeping, and weeping I have waked; my tears Have flow'd as if my body were not such As others are, and I could never die.
~ William Wordsworth
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
~ Wilson Mizner
Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.
~ Wilson Rawls
I cried all the way to the bank.
~ Wladziu Valentino Liberace
I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
~ X.J. Kennedy
The reason she was crying didn't matter to me. Perhaps there was no reason at all. Her tears had that sort of purity.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I don't really know why I'm crying. I can't explain it myself, much less stop it.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
A lightning flash lit up the shadows. Rain was falling gently. The window panes themselves were weeping. Be careful, Younes, I thought, you're wallowing in self-pity. But what did that matter? This was what I saw: the windows crying. I wanted to see tears streak the window panes, I wanted to feel sorry for myself, I wanted to dissolve body and soul into my grief.
~ Yasmina Khadra