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Quotes About Tears

Accept these grateful tears...For thee they flow, for thee... That ever felt another's woe.
~ Homer
The memories were so vivid that the book dropped from my hand and my eyes filled with tears.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Many a wise man lacks for sense, Many a fool has a heart of gold, Happiness often ends in tears, But what's inside can never be told.
~ Amos Oz
His life is his prison while his death is limned to him as a prospect of paradoxical resurrection, a promise of miraculous redemption from his vale of tears.
~ Amos Oz
too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
~ Amy Tan
Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
~ Amy Tan
Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
~ Amy Tan
Too much happiness always overflows into tears of sorrow.
~ Amy Tan
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.
~ Amy Tan
Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy.
~ Amy Tan
Now you see why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy.
~ Amy Tan
Music spilling out of from the eyes in place of tears, music spilling from the throat in place of words, music falling from his fingertips in place of caresses, music exchanged between them instead of love, yearning of five lines, the five lines of their thoughts , their reveries, their emotions, their unknown self, their giant self, their shadow.
~ Anais Nin
But before we go on, I want to explain to you why women weep: IT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO REJOIN THE OCEAN. You liquify, become fluid, flow back into the ocean where the colors are more beautiful
~ Anais Nin
My eyes filled with tears and I wept long and hard, unable, and unwilling, to stop.
~ Andre Gide
E finalmente dalla gola sino a quel momento chiusa, serrata, il grido gli niscì, ma più che un grido un alto lamento d'animale ferito al quale, immediate, fecero seguito le lacrime inarrestabili e liberatorie.
~ Andrea Camilleri
When the young king had finished his sad story he burst once more into tears, and the Sultan was much moved.
~ Andrew Lang
Who can ever say, this is the last? Only one is true, but all of them feel true, and the tears we shed are equal every time.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well. By the end, Arthur Less is in tears, sobbing in his seat, and he thinks he has been sobbing quietly until the lights come up and the woman seated beside him turns and says, "Honey, I don't know what happened in your life, but I am so so sorry," and gives him a lilac-scented embrace.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I had thought that when you feel your worst your tears flood, but the very worst pain is the arid pain of total violation that comes after the tears are all used up, the pain that stops up every space through which you once metered the world, or the world, you. This is the presence of major depression.
~ Andrew Solomon
Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
Are pants really that important?" Laura said. She said it sarcastically because she was afraid of her tears.
~ Ann Bannon
shook my head. Then, tears welling up in my eyes, I fled down the hall to the lounge and sat in front of the soda machines until it was time to go home.
~ Ann M. Martin
And believe it or not, you look very much the way Mimi did when she was young." "I do?" I almost began to cry again.
~ Ann M. Martin
Were it but to avoid an interview with a father who seem'd to have been too much used to womens tears to be moved by them;
~ Samuel Richardson