Quotes About Tears

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

You cry the first tear because something is genuinely, singularly upsetting. And you cry the second tear because everybody is crying that first tear with you, and you know that.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

Maybe part of being a dad means that the slightest little thing will make me tear up.

I'm more apt to shed a tear than my wife about family matters.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until he could not see.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

I shine in tears like the sun in April.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.