Tears Quotes - page 7

I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs. Give them no tear! Tears pleasure them! Show honor now, show a stony heart and sink them with it! (Arthur Miller)
Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow. View quote
Murasaki Shikibu
Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. View quote
John Keats
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor. View quote
Walt Disney
Last, but not least -- in fact, this is most important -- you need a happy ending. However, if you can create tragic situations and jerk a few tears before the happy ending, it will work much better. View quote
Satyajit Ray
When we have chosen the vocation in which we can contribute most to humanity, burdens cannot bend us because they are only sacrifices for all. Then we experience no meager, limited, egotistic joy, but our happiness belongs to millions, our deeds live on quietly but eternally effective, and glowing tears of noble men will fall on our ashes. View quote
Karl Marx
Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says How nice to see children running on the grass The second tear says How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. View quote
Milan Kundera
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong! View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable. (René Daumal)
Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The husband and wife should be similar to the hand and the eye. When the hand hurts, the eyes should be crying. And when the eyes cry, the hand should wipe away the tears. View quote
John Chrysostom
What is a charitable heart? It is a heart which is burning with love for the whole creation, for men, for the birds, for the beasts ... for all creatures. He who has such a heart cannot see or call to mind a creature without his eyes being filled with tears by reason of the immense compassion which seizes his heart; a heart which is softened and can no longer bear to see or learn from others of any suffering, even the smallest pain being inflicted upon a creature. That is why such a man never ceases to pray for the animals ... [He is] ... moved by the infinite pity which reigns in the hearts of those who are becoming united with God. View quote
Isaac the Syrian
We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Tears were frozen to the book theif's face. View quote
Markus Zusak
Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed. View quote
Meg Cabot
Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then... View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds. View quote
Mindy Kaling
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears. View quote
Simon Sinek
Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this? (Scott Westerfeld)
I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
My voice is clotted with unshed tears. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine. View quote
Susanna Tamaro