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Quotes About Tears

Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It's a slow-growing plant.
~ Isabel Allende
El Jardín del Edén, la tierra prometida, el paraíso. Mudo, mojado de lágrimas, el conquistador conquistado iba descubriendo el lugar donde acaba la tierra, Chile.
~ Isabel Allende
Se había secado las lágrimas, pero había vuelto a la mudez con la resignación de quién nunca ha tenido control sobre su existencia.
~ Isabel Allende
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
~ Dorothy Dix
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
~ Katharine Lee Bates
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
~ William Shakespeare
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
~ Julie Burchill
Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
~ Francis Bailey
Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
~ Gordon Graham
Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears and hear their cries!
~ Rouget de Lisle
When London first went into lockdown, Mum and I were in the car listening to the radio. We drove to our local Turkish supermarket and saw queues around the building. Everyone looked terrified. I burst into tears when I got home.
~ Miquita Oliver
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
~ Conor Oberst
I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.
~ Michael Landon
The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.
~ Gena Showalter
I had a screening in Baltimore where one of the hardest individuals just broke into tears at the end. That's the response you want.
~ Sheldon Candis
I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity
~ George III
Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.
~ Otto von Bismarck
His voice softened, and he looked at her, his beautiful eyes glossy. "Cookie, if I could, I'd start all over with you. Do things right. Honor us both." ...His mouth opened. Closed. He swallowed, and a single tear dripped onto his cheek.
~ Susan May Warren
wailed when she'd
~ Susan McBride
I'd been too afraid my tears would christen it with my sorrows. I wanted nothing about the fire to exist in my
~ Susan Meissner
Tears came welling up behind her eyes for a second, then they went back inside for some other time, a sad time. A certain crevice of Lucky's mind wondered if there is some kind of reservoir for tears where they are stored, because sometimes there are so many of them, pouring and pouring out.
~ Susan Patron
Our culture generally views tears and what may lie behind them—sadness, anger, disappointment, fear—as signs of a problem. Something has gone wrong. Somebody needs to figure out who screwed up so we can set this thing right. But tears are actually sweet things. They are signs of authentic feelings. Of
~ Susan Piver
I follow the trail of tears that seems to lead to the heart's truth.
~ Susan S. Phillips
As lágrimas que não saem depositam-se no coração, com o passar do tempo vão formando uma crosta e paralizam-no, como o calcário se encrosta e paraliza as engrenagens da máquina de lavar.
~ Susana Tamaro