Tears Quotes

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk.

You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

If you love God, tear out your heart's love of the world.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

Don't tear your hair out over a woman; it'll be harder to attract the next one if you're bald.

Tears may come and go, But there's one thing I know. All my life you're a friend of mine. You can depend on me. I'll be fine... 'Cause you're a friend of mine.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

If your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

I prefer to cry alone, Pride? No. I just want to avoid trial of people who don't know the reason of my tears.

People are freer in America. But there are more tears.

A true friend sees the first tear, catches the second an stops the third.

I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene.

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.

None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.

Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.

My tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping.

You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.

... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.

You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

If the world 's a vale of tears, Smile, till rainbows span it!

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

My heart is closed, soon it will crumble away. Stifling my tears, I scream every day. My heart has shown me that believing is nothing. My own heart killed me.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger

The Snow-drop, Winter's timid child, Awakes to life, bedew'd with tears.

I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

I prefer your smiles and laughter, wife, but there are far worse things than your tears wetting my skin.

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.

There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror