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Quotes About Tear

And I tore my first puzzle piece of breath out of the sky—which I have yet to return
~ Sharon Olds
I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle
~ Michael Ondaatje
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
~ Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Yet God does exist in the idea of good, which watches over the birth of every being and leaves in the soul embodied in that being one pure tear. Good is God, and the tear the source of eternal feeling.
~ Jose Marti
Mi corazón es como una roca cubierta de musgo, donde nunca falta una lágrima.
~ José Eustasio Rivera
I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.
~ Jens Lekman
And I can remember a tear running down my frozen cheek—a tear neither of pain nor of joy but of emotion created by intense experience.
~ Guy Sajer
For those of you curious about the menu, I am drinking tear soup.
~ Hanif Kureishi
And I've fallen in love with you. But if you tell the Crows, especially Erin, that I said it first, I will tear your toenails out while you're sleeping.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
~ Sir Edwin Arnold
Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily insured.
~ Sir William Schwenck Gilbert
I would hear him screaming, I would watch him bleed, I would tear his flesh piece by piece before I would worry about Æthelflaed. This was family. This was revenge.
~ Bernard Cornwell
He looked down at the first entry. 2 MARCH1810 Today I fell in love. A tear welled up in his eye. "Me too, my love. Me too.
~ Julia Quinn
Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.
~ Bob Feller
Grasping the doorknob, Tengo turned around one last time and was shocked to see a single tear running down from his father's eye. It shone a dull silver color under the ceiling's fluorescent light. To release that tear, his father must have squeezed every bit of strength from what little emotion he still had left.
~ Haruki Murakami
George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
~ Christopher Buckley
The criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.
~ SPIRO AGNEW
I was seeing a human being overflowing with emotion, forcing his passion into his fingertips lest it tear him apart.
~ Stefan Zweig
Lucille is so upset about it, she hasn't shed a tear since
~ Michael Avallone
Regret, hurt, bereavement, loss, to permit the flow of even one tear at the upwelling of such feelings was to imperil ancient root systems and retaining walls. Mudslide and black avalanche would result and drown him.
~ Michael Chabon
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
~ Lord Byron
Glancing up, Kendra saw a golden owl with a human face gazing down at her from a high limb, a tear sliding from one eye.
~ Brandon Mull
In every arrival there is a leave-taking; in every reunion there is a separation; in each one's growing up there is a growing old; in every smile there is a tear; and in every success there is a loss. All living is dying, and all celebration is mortification too.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen