Tears Quotes

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. (Gabriel García Márquez)
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. View quote
François Rabelais
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. View quote
Karen Blixen
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. View quote
Samuel Richardson
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal. View quote
James Thurber
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled. View quote
Georg Büchner
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. (Euripides)
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. View quote
Horace Mann
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. View quote
Robert Frost
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. View quote
Washington Irving
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. View quote
Octave Mirbeau
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. View quote
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. View quote
Thomas Moore
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose. (Heinrich Heine)
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. View quote
Denis Diderot
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. View quote
William Wordsworth
The busy have no time for tears. View quote
Lord Byron
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. View quote
William Shakespeare