TEARS QUOTES III

quotations about tears

Hide thy tears--I do not bid thee not to shed them--'twere easier to stop the Euphrates at its source than one tear of a true and tender heart.

LORD BYRON

Sardanapalus


I sincerely believe our tears are the needle and thread that God gives us to do the mending in our lives.

LESLIE BAILEY

"I Love Life: Iowa Mom Reaches Out to Parents Suffering Loss Of Children", KSOO, June 6, 2017


I cannot weep; for all my body's moisture
Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VI, Part III


Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

"The Philosophy of Composition", The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

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It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

The Voice of the Body

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'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise in.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well

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Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear--
In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
That weapon of her weakness she can wield,
To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

LORD BYRON

Corsair

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I feel the proximity of laughter and tears ... they are right next to each other at our table of human responses to the challenges of living. Tears are sitting in one seat at the table, right next to tears is laughter and the distinction between the two is subtle. You might think you're sitting in the tears spot and a moment later you're cracking up and you realize you are in the next seat laughing. We are alternately serious and silly, sometimes at the same time, one eye laughing, one eye crying as we often say.

JAMES STONE GOODMAN

"On the suicide of celebrities", STL Jewish Light, May 25, 2017


Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack

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Did he break into tears?
In great measure.
A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces truer than those that are so washed.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Much Ado About Nothing


One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

JEAN ANOUILH

Cecile

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But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

ANNE BRONTË

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Sometimes there are no words. Tears are the most eloquent.

JOHN MORRIS

"mum pays heartbreaking tribute at funeral of baby who died from suspected heatstroke", Irish Independent, June 17, 2017


Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

EURIPIDES

fragment, Alexander

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But woe awaits a country, when
She sees the tears of bearded men.

SIR WALTER SCOTT

Marmion

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A tear that trembles for a little while
Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world
Wavers within its circle like a dream,
Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb
Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.

HENRY VAN DYKE

"Dulciora"

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Are tears the best princess's washing water?

JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER

Levana; or, the Doctrine of Education


A lifetime of questions
Tears on your cheek
I tasted the answers
And my body was weak

RUSH

"Tears"


My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth


Crying is part of the adventure.

GAIL CARSON LEVINE

The Two Princesses of Bamarre

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