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Quotes About Tears

I am beginning to see that much of praying is grieving. This grief is so deep not just because the human sin is so great, but also—and more so—because the divine love is so boundless. To become like the Father whose only authority is compassion, I have to shed countless tears and so prepare my heart to receive anyone, whatever their journey has been, and forgive them from that heart.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
To become like the Father whose only authority is compassion, I have to shed countless tears and so prepare my heart to receive anyone, whatever their journey has been, and forgive them from that heart.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Rembrandt portrays the father as the man who has transcended the ways of his children. His own loneliness and anger may have been there, but they have been transformed by suffering and tears. His loneliness has become endless solitude, his anger boundless gratitude. This is who I have to become. I see it as clearly as I see the immense beauty of the father's emptiness and compassion. Can I let the younger and the elder son grow in me to the maturity of the compassionate father?
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ... the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed ... And she was dead, dead, dead
~ Henry James
There seemed to Isabel in these days something sacred in Gardencourt; no chapter of the past was more perfectly irrecoverable. When she thought of the months she had spent there the tears rose to her eyes.
~ Henry James
Recibí su beso y, mientras lo estrechaba un momento entre mis brazos, tuve que hacer el más enorme esfuerzo para no llorar.
~ Henry James
and with that he began to laugh, not a laugh either, but a cackle, a hideous cackle like a rooster with its head on the block. It got him so badly that he had to stop and hold his guts; the tears were streaming down his eyes and between the cackles he let out the most terrible heartrending sobs.
~ Henry Miller
The tears were streaming down his face. He made no effort to brush them away. He just let everything gush forth. Jesus, I thought to myself, that's fine to have a release like that. Fine to be a complete coward at least once in your life. To let go that way.
~ Henry Miller
Plânge si vei g?si un milion de crocodili care s? plâng? cu tine. Lumea e sc?ldat? în lacrimi...Bucuria e întemeiat? pe ceva prea profund pentru a fi înteles si comunicat. A fi bucuros înseamn? a fi un nebun într-o lume de strigoi tristi
~ Henry Miller
Siempre te ríes cuando no debes; te consideran cruel y despiadado, cuando, en realidad, eres simplemente resistente y duradero. Pero, si te ríes cuando los otros ríen y lloras cuando los otros lloran, en ese caso tienes que prepararte para morir como ellos mueren y para vivir como ellos viven. Eso significa estar en lo cierto y llevar la peor parte al mismo tiempo. Significa estar muerto, cuando estás vivo, y estar vivo solo cuando estás muerto.
~ Henry Miller
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o'er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! No tears  35 Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.
~ Herman Melville
The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.
~ Rudolph Valentino
When it's the funeral scene of 'My Girl,' and Thomas is in the casket, and the young lady is screaming that he can't see without his glasses, you can absolutely, absolutely cry. Perfectly big, crazy tears all over your shirt, into the arms of others.
~ Charlamagne tha God
And they danced with laughter and tears. They swung each other round and round, the first and last time in years.
~ Hubert Martin
We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy.
~ Tehya Sky
It hurts me when seeing a girl cry...I want to comfort them as long as I can...or I'll end up crying too...
~ Zayn Malik
He'll swallow up in victory, Grim death, the king of fears From faces all the Lord most high Will wipe away the tears;
~ Stephen Lee
If I can but be the instrument of preserving one life, his blessings and tears of transport, shall be sufficient consolation to me, for the contempt of all mankind.
~ Stephen P. Halbrook
A broken heart bleeds tears.
~ Steve Maraboli
Crying is not a sadness, because as the tears leave our eyes, some of the pain leaves, too, and we can go on living, and so feel more pain, yes, but some joy, as well. The line between sanity and madness may be only the ability to shed a few tears.
~ Steven Brust
When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.
~ Jo Brand
I haven't ever had so many women come up to me and tell me that I made them cry. And they're smiling about it, which is kind of an odd thing. Usually it's not a good thing.
~ Justin Hartley