There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
~By Dorothy Dix ~
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?
~By Kirsten Dunst ~
I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
~By Randy Bachman ~
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.
~By Linda Evans ~
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
~By Ralph Ransom ~
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
~By Horace Mann ~
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
~By Bette Midler ~
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
~By Paul Simon ~
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
~By Kim Wilde ~
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
~By John Cleveland ~
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.
~By Chiaki Kuriyama ~
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
~By Thomas Kyd ~
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
~By Washington Irving ~
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
~By George P. Baker ~
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
~By Octave Mirbeau ~
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
~By Robert Herrick ~
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
~By Robert Frost ~
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.
~By Sid Waddell ~
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
~By Billy Graham ~
It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.
~By Frank Luntz ~
When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
~By Pia Toscano ~
Tears are the silent language of grief.
~By Voltaire ~
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.
~By Jung Chang ~
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
~By Edith Wharton ~
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
~By Jimmy Breslin ~
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.
~By Julie Burchill ~
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
~By Zach Wamp ~
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
~By Loretta Young ~
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~By Billy Graham ~
I shine in tears like the sun in April.
~By Cyril Tourneur ~
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
~By Alfred Adler ~
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
~By Albert Camus ~
When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
~By John Sexton ~
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
~By Charles Peguy ~
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
~By Letitia Landon ~
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
~By Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
~By Bette Davis ~
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
~By Sophocles ~
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
~By Paul Verlaine ~
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
~By John Davidson ~
I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
~By Candice Bergen ~
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
~By Arthur Golden ~
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
~By Lizette Woodworth Reese ~
When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
~By Reba McEntire ~
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
~By Petrarch ~
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.
~By Jo Bonner ~
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
~By Dennis Eckersley ~
I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
~By Camille Claudel ~
An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
~By Billie Burke ~
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
~By Denis Diderot ~
I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
~By Bob Hope ~
They'll take everything, even your tears.
~By George Foreman ~
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
~By Ingrid Bergman ~
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
~By Alfred Douglas ~
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
~By Natalie Clifford Barney ~
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.
~By Robert Pattinson ~
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
~By Steven Tyler ~
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
~By Rene Daumal ~
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
~By Saint Teresa ~
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
~By Winston Churchill ~
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
~By Sallust ~
The busy have no time for tears.
~By Lord Byron ~
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
~By Ethel Merman ~
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
~By Alfred de Musset ~
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.
~By Shelley Fabares ~
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
~By Georg Buchner ~
We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
~By John Lasseter ~
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
~By Thomas Otway ~
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
~By Karl Shapiro ~
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