Tear Quotes

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. (George Sand)
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own. View quote
Antonio Porchia
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. View quote
Billy Wilder
A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. View quote
E. B. White
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. View quote
Victor Hugo
Smiles form the channels of a future tear. View quote
Lord Byron
Alas it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. View quote
Cicero
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories. (Brigham Young)
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. View quote
William Blake
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. View quote
Edward Young
But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. View quote
Isaac Watts
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. View quote
Irvin S. Cobb
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states. (Christian Lous Lange)
While countless Americans are pulling together to lend a helping hand, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are pointing fingers in a shameless effort to tear us apart. View quote
Ken Mehlman
These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
If we can but tear the blindfold of self-deception from our eyes and loosen the gag of self-denial from our voices, we can restore our country to greatness. View quote
Theodore C. Sorensen
When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal. View quote
Yvonne Craig