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Quotes About Tears

Everyone in the room looks at him, horrified by the sight of unfettered glee in a shiva house, but in a minute or so he'll be done laughing, and then, to anyone who sees him, his tear-streaked face and red eyes will seem entirely appropriate.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Tears and fears and feeling proud To say, "I love you" right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked at life that way Oh, but now old friends they're acting strange And they shake their heads and they tell me that I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day.
~ Joni Mitchell
Me siento tan sola que si tuviera lágrimas lloraría.
~ Jordi Sierra i Fabra
porque nada enseña tanto como el sufrir y el llorar.
~ José Hernández
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.
~ Jose Rizal
None could see her without pity, unless he had a felon's heart; she was so tightly bound. The tears ran down her face and fell upon her grey gown where ran a little thread of gold, and a thread of gold was twined into her hair.
~ Joseph Bédier
Actors, who relate their woes in many clever sentences and with much waving of hands and rolling of eyes—they should be made to ride in the cars for passengers with heavy loads, to learn that a slightly bent hand can hold in it the misery of all time, and that the quiver of an eyelid can be more moving than a whole evening full of crocodile tears.
~ Joseph Roth
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
~ Joseph Roux
The Holy Scriptures praise the dew of the morning and the dew of the evening; ros matutinum, ros serotinum! Happy is he who possesses the gift of tears! when young, he will bear flowers; when old, fruit!
~ Joseph Roux
Nunca tengas miedo de tus lágrimas. Ningún cobarde llora. Sólo los hombres lloran. Además, hijo, las lágrimas siempre caen de rodillas.
~ Ermilo Abreu Gómez
Attraverso le lacrime, che non sono un velo ma gocce per vedere con futuro. [La faccia delle nuvole]
~ Erri De Luca
To stop crying, my Raisa... laugh.
~ Esther Friesner
Eternity is non evident. There's this endless rotation of the sun in the skull, the stillness outside, and a storm within. At least a river is always flowing in some part of the country. Winds, always gathering speed, shatter the order of things. We return home, in tears.
~ Etel Adnan
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
~ Ethel Merman
Às vezes sinto-me tão desesperado que me sento a escrever como quem chora". Eugénio de Andrade
~ Eugénio de Andrade
It was incredible, this human capacity for learning, for hope, for love, that persisted like to box of light in my cell, the waters that flowed in my dreams. It was beyond my understanding. Tears came as I surrendered to this wonderment of being.
~ Eugenia Kim
and all I could see was a teary streaking of lights and little bubbles of color before I had to close up again, to shut myself in; so it couldn't be, it couldn't be the case, there's no way that all this was moving around me, Einstein was wrong-
~ Evan Dara
And time tears us up and then it tries to fix us.
~ Evan Kuhlman
I do love to cry. I'll cry at the drop of a hat. I'll cry at your basic television programme, let alone a weepie. But not big, heavy, serious crying. I haven't done that for a while, which is a relief. More like a little welling up of joy.
~ Miranda Hart
I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.
~ Gwen Stefani
I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
~ Sam Taylor-Johnson
And standing there... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world...the tears of the aged...for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
I have cried over myself a hundred times this summer, she thought, I have wept over my big feet and my skinny legs and my nose, I have even cried over my stupid shoes, and now when I have true sadness there are no tears left.
~ Betsy Byars
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
~ Cat Stevens