TEARS QUOTES II
quotations about tears
No, I'll not weep:
I have full cause of weeping; but this heart
Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws
Or ere I'll weep.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Waiting for Godot
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
NIKOLAI GOGOL
attributed, Nikolai Gogol
Tears crave compassion, and submission deserveth forgiveness.
O. GREGORY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Tears are the badges of sorrow.
ARCHIMEDES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Tears are for the bedroom, not the kitchen!
MARCO PIERRE
"Marco Pierre White warns celebs in Hell's Kitchen promo", Be Entertainment, June 7, 2017
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT
The Unnamable
Her only weapons were her tears.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA
Taiko
Tears are the Soul's baptism of cleansing.
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"The Song of the Soul"
Blessed are the tears that fall
Clean the windows of the soul
And usher in a change of heart
And bring a joy that angels know
BRYAN DUNCAN
"Blessed Are The Tears"
Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
"The Little Mermaid"
See, see what showers arise,
Blown with the windy tempest of my heart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part III
Tears do not burn except in solitude.
EMIL CIORAN
On the Heights of Despair
It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start.
RON RASH
Serena
She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears,
For women shed and use them at their liking;
But there is something when man's eye appears
Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Tears are shed -- and tears eventually dry. Hearts break -- and hearts mend.
TYRA DAMM
"Hope helps us get past life's disappointments", Dallas Morning News, June 8, 2017
I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
LOUISE ERDRICH
The Round House
Sweet tears! the awful language, eloquent
Of infinite affection; far too big
For words.
ROBERT POLLOK
The Course of Time
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous, springs up a pearl.
MATTHEW HENRY
attributed, Literary Extracts from English and Other Works