Tears Quotes - page 5

People say I'm the life of the party 'Cause I tell a joke or two. Although I might be laughing loud and hearty, Deep inside I'm blue. So take a good look at my face. You know my smile looks out of place. If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears. (Smokey Robinson)
So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee. View quote
Thomas De Quincey
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living. View quote
John Fante
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. View quote
Julie Burchill
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. View quote
George Chapman
Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head. View quote
Muhammad Ali
Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease. View quote
Jane Austen
No tears are shed, when an enemy dies. View quote
Publilius Syrus
And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears. (Vladimir Nabokov)
When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good. View quote
Robert Pattinson
Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me. View quote
Samuel Beckett
I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly. View quote
Samuel Beckett
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable. View quote
Raymond Williams
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies, For all their broomsticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone. View quote
William Butler Yeats
If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentance you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe. View quote
William Blake
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe. View quote
William Somervile
But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad. View quote
Anne Brontë
And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane. View quote
Stephen Spender
I have no wisdom, no skills, and no faith but I received strength, it tears the world apart. I shall break, a heavy wave, against its shores and a young wave will cover my trace. View quote
Czesław Miłosz
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the west wind, and daffodils. View quote
John Masefield
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. View quote
Kahlil Gibran