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Quotes About Tear

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!
~ Brian Jacques
It was the first time I'd heard her voice, and I saw the deliberate brave calm of her blanched face, the wind making her eyes tear, though she herself remained staunch.
~ Anne Rice
The future is a fabric of interlacing possibilities," he said. "Some of which gradually become probabilities, and a few of which become inevitabilities, but there are surprises sewn into the warp and the woof, which can tear it apart.
~ Anne Rice
I would kiss you anyway, but I have a feeling that if I tried– (Rafael) I'd kick you in the nuts and tear your ear off. (Celena) That would hurt. (Rafael) That's the idea. (Celena)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
How can a man's life keep it's course If he will not let it flow, Those who flow as life flows know They need no other force: They feel no wear, they feel no tear, They need no mending, no repair.
~ Laozi
When the cat finished, she looked up at the red-washed sky above and the glittering stars beyond the Wall and a single tear ran down her cheek, leaving a trail of silver, caught by the last moments of evening light.
~ Garth Nix
Shepherds too soft who let their duty sleep, Encourage wolves to tear the lambs and sleep.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Twelve years he reigned, as says the Book of Maccabees. He was the son of Philip of Macedonia, who was the first King of the country of Greece. O worthy, noble Alexander, alas, that ever such a fall should come to pass! Poisoned by your own people were you. Fortune did roll the dice to your disfavor, and for you she never wept a tear.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
That will be said because people think that heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear.
~ Anthony Trollope
Marcus looked down. "Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?" he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.
~ Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.
~ John Selden
The last pain borne, the last tear, the last sigh, the last lonely hour, the last unsatisfied dream, forever gone by; why should not the dead past bury its dead?
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
O little hour of Love, so wild and sweet! I gave the world, thy honey-dew to eat; And now the tear-sown pathway of the dead Echoes the patter of thy flying feet.
~ ELSA BARKER
my face: I should have had a single tear frozen to my cheek
~ Emily Barr
They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself
~ George Orwell
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
~ Barack Obama
When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down.
~ Markus Zusak
When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart.
~ Ian Curtis
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
~ Octavio Paz
Love, love will tear us apart, again.
~ Ian Curtis
That was a tear of celebration, a tear of receptiveness to what is good in the world, a tear that says it's okay, relax, let down your guard, there are good people in the world, there is good in people, love is real, it's in our nature. That kind of tear is also like being pricked, only now the love pours in.
~ Jonathan Haidt
One thing you have to accept with vintage clothing is that is has very probably been worn before and will, by nature, be quite old. So small signs of wear and tear are normal, and that's just the way it goes.
~ Dawn O'Porter
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
~ Aeschylus