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Quotes About Tears

Might be a cliché. Might not. Then again, to coin another cliché, we see what we want to see, especially when we are a desperate mother hoping to end a decade of pain. Tears
~ Harlan Coben
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
~ Harper Lee
His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. "Hey, Boo," I said.
~ Harper Lee
Nu ÅŸtiu cum, dar au f?cut-o. Au f?cut-o ÅŸi înainte, au f?cut-o ast?-sear? ÅŸi au s-o mai fac?, ÅŸi când fac una ca asta...se pare c? numai copiii plâng.
~ Harper Lee
When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange small spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears. "Hey, Boo," I said.
~ Harper Lee
Two big tears had run beneath his glasses down the sides of his cheeks. They had hurt him badly this time.
~ Harper Lee
These are tears and I am crying. It is not a painful sensation, as I always thought it must be. It feels like the purest expression of feeling that it is possible to have. And the feeling mixes everything up together. Happiness. Sadness. Relief. Sorrow. Love. A mixture if things no psychiatrist ever felt. It is the most wonderful mixture in the world.
~ Harry Bingham
Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.
~ Haruki Murakami
When I wake up, my pillow's cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.
~ Haruki Murakami
She leaves behind a damp pillow, wet with her tears. You touch the warmth with your hand and watch the sky outside gradually lighten. Far away a crow caws. The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.
~ Haruki Murakami
Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr Wind-up Bird? They're nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts.
~ Haruki Murakami
Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they're also what tear you apart
~ Haruki Murakami
As in puberty,] There will be tears. And anger. And tragically unfortunate haircuts.
~ Heather Corinna
Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.
~ Heather Lende
There was a scent called Five Minutes Before It Rains. If you put it on your neck, whoever kissed you would cry.
~ Heather O'Neill
Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht, Dann bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht, Ich kann nicht mehr die Augen schließen, Und meine heißen Tränen fließen.
~ Heinrich Heine
Quali che siano le lacrime che si piangono, alla fine si finisce sempre per soffiarsi il naso
~ Heinrich Heine
Will not the Senorita trust me? Ramona smiled faintly through her tears. Yes, she said. I will trust you. You are Alessandro, are you not? Yes, Senorita, he answered, greatly surprised, I am Alessandro.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
'The Notebook' gets me every time. It's a great love story. Boy from the wrong side of the tracks. They get on each other's nerves, but they can't live without each other. It almost makes me shed a tear.
~ Michael Strahan
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
~ Thomas Kyd
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears.
~ Paul Bloom
If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.
~ John Phillips
I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
~ Gayle Forman
People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
~ Sally Hawkins