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Quotes About Tears

Time to plant tears, says the almanac. The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
~ George Orwell
When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.
~ Gwen John
Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
~ Dashiell Hammett
It hurts so terribly to cry, but not so much as not being able to cry.
~ Margaret Mitchell
İnsan?n sevdiklerini aÄŸlarken görmesi ne korkunç bir manzara. Bütün geri dönüÅŸü olmayan vedalaÅŸmalar? hat?rlat?yor bana. SoÄŸuk istasyonlardaki gözyaÅŸlar?, trenlerin ac?mas?z arka ???klar?... Bir aÅŸk?n sonu... Lütfen, bir daha hiç aÄŸlama. -Milena Jesenska
~ Margarete Buber-Neumann
The wind sings of our nostalgia and the starry sky ignores our dreams. Each snow flake is a tear that fails to trickle Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds not performed, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and mine.
~ Margot Bickel
Es la mayor injusticia del tiempo, de todos los tiempos: y si uno no llora por eso una sola vez en su vida no llora por nada. Y no llorar nunca es no vivir.
~ Marguerite Duras
Llorar, es necesario que eso también suceda.
~ Marguerite Duras
Les baisers sur le corps font pleurer. On dirait qu'ils consolent.
~ Marguerite Duras
Kisses on the body bring tears. Almost like a consolation. At home I don't cry. But that day in that room, tears console both for the past and for the future. I tell him one day I'll leave my mother, one day even for my mother I'll have no love left. I weep. He lays his head on me and weeps to see me weep.
~ Marguerite Duras
It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting that I discovered I was crying.
~ Marian Keyes
I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy.
~ Marianne Curley
Her eyes are liquid and draining out of her.
~ Marianne Curley
That every tear she felt like crying was a tear she had to cry, and she would know when she had cried enough when she didn't have any more tears left.
~ Marianne Williamson
The world will be different for our daughters and sons because of our tears, our bravery, and our breakthroughs.
~ Marianne Williamson
If only she'd known then what comfort was coming, she'd have spared herself a little. You can say to yourself, I'm just a body that thinks and talks and seems to want its life, one more day of it. You don't have to know why. Well, nothing could ever change if your body didn't just keep you there not even knowing what it is you're waiting for. Not even knowing that you're waiting at all. Just there on the stoop in the moonlight licking up tears.
~ Marilynne Robinson
cuando entré en su habitación estaba llorando... No pertenecíamos a la misma clase social, pero al menos estabamos en la misma cama
~ Marjane Satrapi
And something else, of course; there's always more, deep in art's pockets, far down in the chiaroscuro on which these foodstuffs rest: everything here has been transformed into feeling, as if by looking very hard at an object it suddenly comes that much closer to some realm where it isn't a thing at all but something just on the edge of dissolving. Into what? Tears, gladness—you've felt like this before, haven't you? Taken far inside.
~ Mark Doty
Great was the anger of Lady Arabella, loud were the protestations of the girl, mute the woe of her father, piteous the tears of her mother, inexorable the judgment of the Greshamsbury world. But
~ Anthony Trollope
it is the people who live in our hearts who make us strong, who give us hope. There may be tears along the way, but in the end without those we love, there can be no true happiness.
~ Sherryl Woods
And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky. 'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.' 'I told you that you would like it on the moon.
~ Shirley Jackson
Nothing," she said, "upsets me more than being hungry; I snarl and snap and burst into tears.
~ Shirley Jackson
Her eyes hurt with tears against the screaming blackness of the path and the shuddering whiteness of the trees, and she thought, with a clear intelligent picture of the words in her mind, burning, Now I am really afraid.
~ Shirley Jackson