Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
~By William Blake ~
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
~By Edward Fitzgerald ~
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 ~
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
~By Robert Frost ~
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 ~
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
~By Alfred Douglas ~
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
~By Saint Teresa ~
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~By William Wordsworth ~
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
~By Letitia Landon ~
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
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 ~
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
~By Rebecca West ~
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.
~By Linda Evans ~
They'll take everything, even your tears.
~By George Foreman ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
~By Bob Hope ~
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
I shine in tears like the sun in April.
~By Cyril Tourneur ~
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
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 ~
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 ~
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
~By Ovid ~
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
~By Bette Davis ~
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
~By Loretta Young ~
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 ~
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
~By Lizette Woodworth Reese ~
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
~By Alvin Ailey ~
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
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 ~
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 ~
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
~By Alfred de Musset ~
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
~By Victor Hugo ~
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
~By Giuseppe Verdi ~
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 ~
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 ~
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
~By Judy Garland ~
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 ~
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
~By Alfred Austin ~
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 ~
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
~By Sallust ~
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
~By Marguerite de Valois ~
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 ~
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 ~
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
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 ~
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
~By Anne Bronte ~
TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.
~By Mary Schmich ~
The busy have no time for tears.
~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
~By William Shakespeare ~
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
~By Edith Wharton ~
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
~By Cat Stevens ~
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 ~
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
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 ~
Pearls mean tears.
~By Doris Lessing ~
I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
~By Martin Short ~
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
~By Max Beckmann ~
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
~By Denis Diderot ~
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
~By Petrarch ~
The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
~By Charles Simeon ~
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 ~
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 ~
Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
~By George William Russell ~
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~By Amelia Barr ~
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~By Francis J. Braceland ~
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 ~
Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.
~By Rip Taylor ~
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
~By Richard V. Allen ~
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 ~
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
~By Paul Simon ~
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 ~
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
~By Kim Wilde ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.
~By Christine Lahti ~
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