Tears Quotes

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

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.

All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.

Our tears are what happens when it rains deep inside our hearts and we cannot hold the rain any longer.

There is a sacredness in tears

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Life is messy and gloriously imperfect, and some signs of wear and tear indicate a well-loved, well-used home.

I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

Got those moods a swinging, tears a slinging, nothing fits me, when it hits me, ranting, raving, misbehaving, PMS blues.

Tears are not arguments.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God

I was a very devout boy and one day I heard the music of an Egyptian Koran singer in the mosque. The melancholy of this music touched me so deeply that it brought me to tears.

The tears of God are the meaning of history

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

O Earth! All bathed with blood and tears, yet never, Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.

The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.

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.

We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof That we are beings that do not know What to do with out hearts