Shedding Tears Quotes:

Tears are words the heart can't express

- Gerard Way

topic: Sad, Heart, Sorrow, Make You Cry, Love And Sad

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

- Billy Graham

topic: Strength, Christian, Self, Strength Weakness, Strength And Weakness

Tears are the silent language of grief.

- Voltaire

topic: Sympathy, Grief, Losing A Loved One, Inspirational Bereavement, Inspirational Grief

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: "The Figure a Poem Makes". Book by Ernest Hemingway, 1939.

topic: Reading, Book, Writing, Story Writers, Story Writing

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

topic: Relationship, Sympathy, Spiritual, Make You Cry, Someone Dying

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Blow, Tears, Noses, Shedding Tears

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Love, Strength, Tears, Plebeians, Shedding Tears

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

- Kate Tempest

topic: Shadow, Tears, Devil, Shedding Tears

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

- Stendhal

source: Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.50, Tyché

topic: Character, Men, Tears, Prove To Me, Shedding Tears

Then I noticed that my shadow was crying too, shedding clear, sharp shadow tears. Have you ever seen the shadows of tears, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? They’re nothing like ordinary shadows. Nothing at all. They come here from some other, distant world, especially for our hearts. Or maybe not. It struck me then that the tears my shadow was shedding might be the real thing, and the tears that I was shedding were just shadows. You don’t get it, I’m sure, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. When a naked seventeen-year-old girl is shedding tears in the moonlight, anything can happen. It’s true.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Girl, Real, Heart, Seventeen, Seventeen Years Old

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being unambitious, and having a conscience.

- Shaqiq al-Balkhi

topic: Wisdom, Regret, Islamic, Soft Heart, Not Caring

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

- George Mikes

topic: Humorous, Israel, Tears, Shedding Tears

But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?

- Logan Pearsall Smith

topic: Death, Stars, Writing, Shedding Tears