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Quotes About Tears

And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas
My feelings leak out my eyes, crumpling my face, heave through my frame
~ E. Lockhart
The best happiness is the one you have after crying.
~ Eddy M Reyes
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Because I feel that in the heavens above The angels, whispering one to another, Can find among their burning tears of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother," Therefore, by that dear name I have long called you, You who are more than mother unto me.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.
~ Edith Hamilton
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Llora por lo que ha perdido, mientras observa esa foto que rememora una tarde de victoria. Y llora, tal vez, por todas las veces que le ha tocado perder. Uno nunca llora por una sola cosa, cada vez que llora.
~ Eduardo Sacheri
Eyes blurred, she drove away. Alone, buzzing down the asphalt trail to Kayenta, heart beating, her pistons leaping madly up and down, Bonnie Abbzug relapsed into the sweet luxury of tears. Hard to see the road. She turned on the windshield wipers but that didn't help much.
~ Edward Abbey
Martha: ... I cry allllll the time; but deep inside, so no one can see me. I cry all the time. And Georgie cries all the time, too. We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take our tears, and we put 'em in the ice box, in the goddamn ice trays until they're all frozen and then... we put them... in our... drinks.
~ Edward Albee
Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.
~ Edward Dahlberg
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
~ Anonymous
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her.
~ Anonymous
Nowhere is there an account or portrait of Christ laughing... he is always stern, serious and as gloomy as a prison guard. Never does one see him laughing until tears appear in his eyes like the roly-poly squint-eyed Buddha guffawing with arms upraised.
~ Anonymous
They that sow in tears shall reap joy.
~ Anonymous
Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my tears to keep My baby sleeps in Heaven's arms Peaceful with angelic charms Take my tears but grant me a kiss From the angel baby I so miss.
~ Anonymous
Mentre io piango come piangono i pini dentro la brocca di resina senza che nessuno se ne accorga [...]
~ António Lobo Antunes
continua a surpreender-me o número de recordações que se podem pendurar lado a lado no fio de uma lágrima)" - pg 130/616
~ António Lobo Antunes
After dinner was over, they all sat back and stories began flying around the room each more embarrassing than the last. Once his dads started telling stories about Austin as a little boy and his big crush on the paperboy, Austin stood from the table and grabbed Riley's wrist to pull him up. "I hope you know that you make it very difficult to love you guys," said Austin. Mitch nodded. "We try." "Your tears give us our power," Alan deadpanned.
~ Anthony Bryant
She was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes.
~ Anthony Doerr
tang in the back of his throat and he bites back tears. Each morning comes along and you assume it will be similar enough to the previous one—that you will be safe, that your family will be alive, that you will be together, that life will remain mostly as it was. Then a moment arrives and everything changes.
~ Anthony Doerr
remembering his great-uncle and his affection for him, Octavius burst into tears.
~ Anthony Everitt
George W. Bush has dutifully, if not intentionally, provided Americans with laughs for nearly a decade. He has also made them cry, sometimes for the same reason.
~ Alexandra Petri
We used Chaplin's formula in all my pictures. Make 'em laugh for five and a half reels, and then make 'em cry in the last half reel. But give 'em a chance to dry their eyes before the lights come up.
~ Jackie Coogan