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Quotes About Tears

The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.
~ Pliny the Elder
When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself.
~ Jane Porter
Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.
~ John Keats
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.
~ Raymond Williams
Life is hard, money doesn't care, your tears don't add value
~ Kevin O'Leary
The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.
~ Walter Scott
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
~ Jane Birkin
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.
~ W. H. Auden
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
~ Jodi Picoult, House Rules
Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.
~ Jessica Alba
I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.
~ Michael Silverblatt
I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.
~ Roberto Cavalli
Anything that makes your mother cry is fun
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I love crying at romantic movies like 'The Notebook.' I'm always bawling.
~ Fergie
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.
~ W. A. Criswell
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.
~ Oliver Sacks
Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.
~ Brian Molko
I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears
~ Miyavi
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice
~ Albert Schweitzer
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
~ Publilius Syrus
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
~ Juvenal
Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
~ William Shakespeare
Rain, Aren't you my soul's joyful tearsonly longing for the sky to be happy?
~ Munia Khan
The skyScorched by the sun, WeepsFecund tears.
~ James Clavell