Quotes and Sayings About Tears
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
-- A. E. Housman -
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
-- A. O. Scott -
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
-- Aaron Hill -
Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
-- Aaron Hill -
Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.
-- Abram Joseph Ryan -
You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!
-- Abu Nuwas -
I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.�Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana.�But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.
-- Ai Yazawa -
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
-- Aimee Bender -
I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
-- Alan Davies -
When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it. Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged. I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.
-- Alan Lee -
Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
-- Alan Redpath -
When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
-- Albert Camus -
A lot of people worry about the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings. I feel it's more a matter of people treating the things that surround them with respect.
-- Albert Hadley -
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.
-- Alethea Kontis -
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.
-- Alex Garland -
Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.
-- Alexander Smith -
Thank you,†he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…†And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to avenge myself!
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
-- Alexandre Dumas -
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
-- Alfred Adler
