quotations about tears
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
Tears are almost always evidence of growth.
MICHAEL SEAN WINTERS
"Donald Trump's tears are good, but the US needs more", National Catholic Reporter, April 19, 2017
A tear that trembles for a little while
Upon the trembling eyelid, till the world
Wavers within its circle like a dream,
Holds more of meaning in its narrow orb
Than all the distant landscape that it blurs.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"Dulciora"
Are tears the best princess's washing water?
JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
Levana; or, the Doctrine of Education
Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place
And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run
Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,
And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Tears
My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.
ANNE GIARDINI
The Sad Truth About Happiness
Bottled tears are useless.
MRS. C. V. HAMILTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Short Circuits
Who can refrain from tears, whose eye of reason hath snatched but a cursory glance of mankind's numerous woes? Who but he whose heart is made of stone, and is lost to every impression of benevolence.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On Man's Extreme Misery By Sin", Select Essays, Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
THOMAS PAINE
attributed, Day's Collacon
A light heart in the morning may yet bring tears before evening.
ANNE ISABELLA THACKERAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
The absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.
LISA KLEYPAS
Mine Till Midnight
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Return of the King
Emotions are to be celebrated! Tears are good!
JUSTIN BALDONI
"Justin Baldoni Writes Emotional Letter to His Unborn Son in Sweet Gender Reveal", People, June 1, 2017
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
T. MOORE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.
LIN YUTANG
Between Tears and Laughter
A broken heart bleeds tears.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Antony and Cleopatra
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
Egeria: or Voices of Though and Counsel for the Woods and Wayside
Tears are a necessary part of my day-to-day functioning. They are a way for me to process all of my emotions. And I will never deprive my child of the opportunity for him to experience a wide range of emotions, both the good and the bad. For that reason, I will never tell my little boy to stop crying.... Even when his tears are the result of him acting like a wild little monster, they are still borne of true emotion.
KELLY GREEN
"I'll Never Tell My Son To Stop Crying, Because He Has A Right To His Own Feelings", Romper, May 30, 2017