TEARS QUOTES

quotations about tears

Tears quote

Tears are the safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.

ALBERT SMITH

attributed, The Biblical Museum


There you go ... let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

SHANNON HALE

Princess Academy


The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

ANNE LAMOTT

Salon, November 3, 2014

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Oh! think not that my eyes are dry,
Because you mark no falling tears:
There flows a river deep and dark,
Whose waters ebb not with the years.

ALBERT LAIGHTON

"The Veiled Grief"

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The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.

ROBERT DODSLEY

The Economy of Human Life

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What I should say
My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,
Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry VI, Part III

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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

CHARLES DICKENS

Great Expections

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There she shook
The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
And clamour moisten'd.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear


Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

C. S. LEWIS

The Silver Chair

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And my tears flow like the ocean
As they floated in the breeze
They were falling in slow motion
And they brought me to my knees

CLEAN BANDIT

"Tears"


There never was a mask so gay, but some tears where shed behind it.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

The Complete Works of L. E. Landon


After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1757

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

ROBERT HERRICK

"Tears are Tongues", Hesperides, Or Works Both Human and Divine

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O, banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.

JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Tears are Nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed with them.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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I don't know how to experience an emotion unless it's accompanied by hot tears flying down my cheeks.

KELLY GREEN

"I'll Never Tell My Son To Stop Crying, Because He Has A Right To His Own Feelings", Romper, May 30, 2017


For every laugh, there should be a tear.

WALT DISNEY

attributed, The New York Times, November 2, 2001

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What's interesting, to the extent male tears are ever that interesting, is the nature of the response from the Menfolk.

BOB PROEHL

"Sorry, crybaby fanboys: Geek culture was never the white-male safe space of your fantasies", Salon, June 8, 2017


Scripture talks about life as a "valley of tears," and so it often is. But it is in the midst of tears and darkness that the deepest faith develops. Wherever and whenever miracles don't happen, we have an opportunity to allow faith to take root in our souls, and it is precisely this faith that has the power to work the deepest miracle of all, the one that happens quietly inside our own hearts.

ANN SPANGLER

When You Need a Miracle

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