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Quotes About Tears

On the stairs he was crying so much he hardly saw where he was going - not a mad boo-hoo but wailing sheets of tears, shaken into funny groans by the bump of each step as he hurried down.
~ Alan Hollinghurst
I love that phrase that parents say to their children when they cry: 'I'll give you something to cry about.'
~ John Grant
For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.
~ Dave Sim
If someone's in tears or they're leaving the show, it's hard not being able to physically reach out. But Strictly' is such a celebratory, feel-good show, full of warmth and sparkle and joy, I felt lucky to be a part of something that people were appreciating on a whole other level because they were stuck at home.
~ Tess Daly
Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears - you want that full range of emotion.
~ Travis Knight
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
~ Saint Augustine
Fond and protective equals love? I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry.
~ Rachel Hartman
She didn't resist the rush of tears. If there was no sadness about leaving New York, then her time here would've meant nothing.
~ Rachel Hauck
My heart is pulverized, and I wanna cry.
~ Rachel Howzell Hall
Whimsy is the answer to tears.
~ Rachel Kushner
The cause of whose tears... could not be found in the traces on her cheeks. ...even as he knew the source of her tears was endless. bottomless and endless and not to be found in their traces. p.194
~ Rachel Kushner
Allí de rodillas lo abracé, le acaricié la espalda y el pelo y ambos lloramos juntos. No había palabras para expresar lo que sentíamos; las lágrimas lo decían por nosotros: el terror, el alivio, el amor y la pena todo mezclado en la sal.
~ Rachel Ward
You've read the books?" I've seen the movies." Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) So you haven't read the books." I'm not really a book person." That might be the most idiotic thing you've ever said to me
~ Rainbow
Through tears, she couldn't ask the hardest question. But I had the answer. "He's moving.
~ Randy Pausch
the pandemic has created a feast for funeral directors and morticians. The greed of cannibals are now satisfied as they collect and smile their way to the bank while the tears are falling. Their fees just get higher and higher.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
Tractores, mi vida, tractores, mira los surcos que dejan. Mientras tú lloras ellas ya le están haciendo llorar a otro. Y hacen bien, y tú tendrías que hacer lo mismo.
~ Ray Loriga
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.
~ Raynor Schein
Shards of glass fell down like lacerated rain
~ Rebecca Godfrey
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.
~ Katie Melua
All the way home, his wound pulsing with every hearbeat, he had cursed himself for a fool. How could he think she loved him? He had never been loved in his life, save perhaps by Erik and the other men who had served with him across the sea, and that was the love of comrades. He had never known the love of women, just their embrace. Twice he had found tears running down his face...
~ Raymond E. Feist
Vu iz do a vasser on a zamd? Vu is do a melech on a land? Dos vasser fun oyg iz on zamd. Der melech in kortn iz on land. Where is there water without sand? Where is there a king without land? Tears from the eyes are withoud sand. The king of cards has no land. (p. 72)
~ Rebecca Goldstein Mazel
B]eauty is one of the things that make you cry and so maybe beauty is always tied up in tears.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The tears of our devastation fertilize the soil of our evolution.
~ Regena Thomashauer
A Boat O beautiful was the werewolf in his evil forest. We took him to the carnival and he started crying when he saw the Ferris wheel. Electric green and red tears flowed down his furry cheeks. He looked like a boat out on the dark water.
~ Richard Brautigan