Nothing dries sooner than tears.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
~By Heinrich Heine ~
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
~By James Thurber ~
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
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 ~
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
~By Robert Herrick ~
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 ~
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
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 ~
The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
~By Alfred de Musset ~
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 ~
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
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 ~
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 have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.
~By Martin Short ~
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 ~
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
~By Billy Graham ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
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 ~
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
~By Lizette Woodworth Reese ~
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 at times have the weight of speech.
~By Ovid ~
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 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 ~
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~By Francis J. Braceland ~
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 ~
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 ~
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
~By Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~
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 ~
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
~By Letitia Landon ~
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
~By Rebecca West ~
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~By Amelia Barr ~
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
~By Bob Hope ~
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~By William Wordsworth ~
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.
~By Louis Kronenberger ~
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 ~
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
~By Paul Simon ~
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
~By Loretta Young ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
The busy have no time for tears.
~By Lord Byron ~
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
~By Paul Verlaine ~
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.
~By Linda Evans ~
For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
~By Juvenal ~
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 ~
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
~By Ralph Ransom ~
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
~By Burt Bacharach ~
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 ~
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
~By Petrarch ~
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 ~
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 ~
All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
~By Alfred Douglas ~
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
~By Alfred Austin ~
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
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 ~
Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.
~By Andy Richter ~
The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Tears are the silent language of grief.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
~By Albert Camus ~
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 ~
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 ~
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
~By Bette Davis ~
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 ~
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
~By Sallust ~
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 ~
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 ~
Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.
~By Thomas Otway ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
~By Thomas Moore ~
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 ~
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
~By Saint Teresa ~
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