Tears Quotes - page 2

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. View quote
Billy Graham
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. View quote
John Lennon
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. View quote
James Thurber
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. View quote
Zane Grey
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away. View quote
Kim Wilde
Tears do not burn except in solitude. (Emil Cioran)
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. View quote
Emil Cioran
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible. View quote
Georg Brandes
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. View quote
Boris Pasternak
When the stars threw down their spears, And watered heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see Did he who made the Lamb make thee. View quote
William Blake
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. View quote
William Wordsworth
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears And humble cares, and delicate fears A heart, the fountain of sweet tears And love and thought and joy. View quote
William Wordsworth
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. View quote
William Wordsworth
Yet tears to human suffering are due And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. (William Wordsworth)
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. View quote
John D. MacDonald
America, why are your libraries full of tears? View quote
Allen Ginsberg
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. View quote
Sophocles