Tears Quotes

Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don't want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -

D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.

The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now.

I would much rather people kick and scream and tear their hair out and accuse me of all kinds of blasphemy, than just have no opinion whatsoever.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

Girls who used to tell me I ain't cool enough now text me pics saying you can tear this up!

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.

Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.

I watched you for years,” she whispered. The tears were drying on her cheeks, and heat was building within her. If he would just touch her. Touch her there. “I watched you and you never saw me.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

No tears to damn you when jealousy burns.

Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.

In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

Endow the Living - with the Tears - You squander on the Dead.

But I had been in love pretty often and I didn't think it stood the wear and tear.

Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks.

How was your... eh... trip?" Artemis felt the sting of tears in his own eyes. "Um, eventful.

I saw the sunlight in a leafy place, Bathing itself in liquid green and amber-- Where every flower had tears hid in its petals, And every leaf was lovely with the rain.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.

Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

Life, to me, is never one color. Even in the saddest moments, you can have a chuckle. And in the happiest moments, you can shed a tear.

Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.

I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon too many abandoned for the mess they made.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

You know there are two kinds of tears. Tears for those who leave you and tears for those who you never let go. And I won't say goodbye to you Xena, 'cause we'll be together again one day.

It'll all end in tears and oil.

The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.

Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.

Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.