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Quotes About Tear

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I am like the night to you, little flower. I can only give you peace and a wakeful silence hidden in the dark. When in the morning you open your eyes, I shall leave you to a world a-hum with bees, and songful with birds. My last gift to you will be a tear dropped into the depth of your youth; it will make your smile all the sweeter, and bemist your outlook on the pitiless mirth of day.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
a stone image shed a miraculous tear of compassion over the incertitudes of life and death....
~ Joseph Conrad
He was a dismal man,with a perpetual tear sparkling at the end of his nose,who either had been in trouble,or was in trouble,or expected to be in trouble – couldn't be happy unless something went wrong.
~ Joseph Conrad
The left strap was torn from the pleated bodice but did not appear to be otherwise damaged, it should be easy to mend. More difficult would be the long jagged tear in the skirt, upward from the hem on a bias. She could hear still the shriek of the delicate fabric as if her very nerves had been ripped out of her flesh.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
~ Walter Scott
To weep and lament over misfortunes, when it draws the sympathizing tear, brings no light recompense.
~ Aeschylus
When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
~ Alan Lee
Then the universe rocks. The very fabric of reality is rent.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self.
~ Kafka, Franz
Nurse Balnshik, Lord Emenwyr's minder, is 100% demon, but glamorous : Do you know any other midwife who can also tear apart armored warriors with her bare, er, hands? Lovely and versatile.
~ Kage Baker
Where the human need for order meetsthe human tendency to mayhem, where civilization runs smack against its discontents, you find friction, and a great deal of general wear and tear.
~ Ian Mcewan
But most through midnight streets I hearHow the youthful harlot's curseBlasts the newborn infant's tearAnd blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
~ William Blake
If there's no hatred in a mindAssault and battery of the windCan never tear the linnet from the leaf.
~ William Butler Yeats
Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.
~ Johnny Cash
Line printer paper is strongest at the perforations.
~ Dave Barry
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.
~ Victor Borge
Another area of tenant-landlord disputes over the return of deposits has to do with damages to the premises. Some landlords try to charge tenants for everything from a worn spot on a hall rug to faded paint to missing lightbulbs. The tenant is not responsible for any damage or wear and tear done to the premises by an earlier tenant. (CC §1950.5(e).)
~ Janet Portman
The heart of a city Is the soul of a man It winds like a river Through the heart of the land They can tear down a building They can tear down a park They can strike at a symbol But they can't strike the heart
~ Janis Ian
A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.
~ Alberic
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
~ Aldous Huxley
Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear...
~ Alexander Pope