Top 100 Quotes About Tears
#1. When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.
Ann Voskamp
#2. These vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...
John Geddes
#3. 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
#4. Tears may come and go,
But there's one thing I know.
All my life you're a friend of mine.
You can depend on me.
I'll be fine ...
'Cause you're a friend of mine.
Clarence Clemons
#5. Crying in the rain. No one sees your tears and your pain gets washed away.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#6. People say I'm the life of the party Because 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'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears..
Smokey Robinson
#7. 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.
Anne Bronte
#8. They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith ...
Andrew Galasetti
#9. The Beast may win a battle, the Mastermind may win a war, but only those able to adapt to change will stand the test of time. - Delanawa, Tears of Destiny (Elements of Eaa #1)
J.M. Cataffo
#10. So what was the hardest part?' Mr Gopnik said.
'I'm sorry?'
'Of working for William Traynor. It sounds like quite a challenge.'
I hesitated. The room was suddenly very quiet. 'Letting him go.' I said. And found myself unexpectedly biting back tears.
Jojo Moyes
#11. My tears of joy
hear the raindrops crying,
as the rain never wants to pour
down on my cloudy days
when I make
our love-dreams
for the sun to dream
only for you ...
(From the poem "Only For You" By Munia Khan)
Munia Khan
#12. Am I Dead?"
Had she fallen to her doom and this was all an elaborate fantasy? Was this the place between life and death? Her eyes welled up with tears and she ran towards the man that wasn't there, wanting to cling to him, to find something to save her from this torture.
M. Keep
#13. Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.
Anita Diamant
#14. I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
Robert Benchley
#15. My heart stole back across wide wastes of years To One who wandered by a lonely sea, And sought in vain for any place of rest: 'Foxes have holes, and every bird its nest. I, only I, must wander wearily, And bruise my feet, and drink wine salt with tears.' Poem:
Oscar Wilde
#16. Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
George William Russell
#17. Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.
Sally Pearson
#18. The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.
Maureen Dowd
#19. No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.
Mariah Carey
#20. Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
George R R Martin
#21. My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody ...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#22. In life; there are two things you should never believe: the tears of women and the hearts of men, and there are two things you should always believe in life; the hearts of women, and the tears of men.
Eyden I.
#23. Try to think of happy things," he says, caressing my forehead. I stare at the ceiling, tears welling. What happy things? Who could be happy in a world of podiums and microphones? "There are a billion people in China who don't give a rat's ass about your speech," Ken offers sympathetically.
Susan Cain
#24. When I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people
Eddie Izzard
#25. I don't want to talk about it anymore," I said, focusing on the dashboard in front of me to prevent the tears that filled my eyes from falling. "Please don't ask me again." Then I got out of the car. I closed the door and didn't look back, fighting the newly created anxiety in my belly.
Erin Dionne
#26. So Chaol brushed away her tears, lifted her chin, and kissed her.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. I take courage," Aeneas said. "Here too there are tears for things, and hearts are touched by the fate of all that is mortal.
Edith Hamilton
#28. Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.
Nathanael West
#30. Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.
Criss Jami
#32. The worst thing was what I had started wanting from her by the end, what I still wanted from her with inappropriate intensity: her tears and misery, her trembling surrender, and my selfish perversity unhinging her soul.
Annabel Joseph
#33. Salvation Creek flows till date, endless tears of motherly love and manly regret.
Adhish Mazumder
#34. The dividing line forms-fashioned from:
Dragon's tears
Missed years
Overcome fears
The fire and ice paradox
Seen with True Sight
Darkness does not always equate to evil
Light does not always bring good
P.C. Cast
#35. These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.
Steven Morrissey
#36. To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears
THAT is Christianity!
Watchman Nee
#37. It is hard for decent people to stay angry at someone who has burst into tears, which is why it is often a good idea to burst into tears if a decent person is yelling at you.
Lemony Snicket
#38. She knew: shit, we might as well have been drinking a dog's tears. Nothing mattered except that we were alive.
Denis Johnson
#39. When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.
John Sexton
#40. And I don't regret the rain
Or the nights I felt the pain
Or the tears I had to cry
Some of those times along the way.
Every road I had to take,
Every time my heart would break,
It was just something that I had to get through,
To get me to you.
Lila McCann
#41. People were dumped all the time and their tears did not swallow dry land.
Valentine Glass
#42. I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.
Nick Hornby
#43. If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
Dalai Lama
#44. 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.
Mindy Kaling
#45. But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.
Ibn Al-Farid
#46. I never knew up to that time that God loved us so much. This heart of mine began to thaw out; I could not keep back the tears. I just drank it in ... I tell you there is one thing that draws above everything else in the world and that is love.
Dwight L. Moody
#47. Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.
Angela Carter
#48. 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.
Horace Mann
#49. She loved details, and the world, and inevitably became lost in both. Violently beautiful sunsets could reduce her to tears. She was virtually incapacitated by fireflies.
Emily St. John Mandel
#50. O what a blessed day that will be when I shall ... stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!
Richard Baxter
#51. I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.
Wilfred Owen
#52. The steel reddens, warming under Cal's fiery touch, and bits of the gilded hilt melt between his fingers. Gold and silver and iron, dripping from his hands like tears.
Victoria Aveyard
#53. O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#54. The moment I finish 'any' book, my feels are pretty much the same. Goes a little something like this: It's done? Whimper. Tears of joy. Oh, my back. Relief! Shower! Food! Sleep! Oh, my back. You mean I get to catch up on my favorite TV shows? Tears of joy. Oh, my back.
Gena Showalter
#55. Never trust a person more than you, when they break the trust you lost the life of happiness,it shakes the heart and gives the tears for ever
Debolina
#56. The male's diamond eyes locked on Payne, and though she hadn't seen him in forever, she knew who he was. Sure as if she was staring at her own reflection. Tears sprang unbidden to her eyes for last she had known, he breathed no longer. "Vishous," she whispered desperately. "Oh, brother mine ...
J.R. Ward
#57. Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry
Paulo Coelho
#58. I could barely breathe as I fled down the steps, like something was stuck in my throat. I couldn't tell what flavor it was; it tasted salty like tears, but it was sharp as broken glass.
Laura Bickle
#59. Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.
Pope Francis
#60. Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
George McGovern
#61. He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.
Pete Wentz
#62. All right, all right," he said, with that gesture I'd come to hate: two open palms facing me and patting the air, as if pushing me away, pushing me down, pushing any tears I might be preparing to cry back into their ducts.
Kathleen Rooney
#63. Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..
Georgina Grey
#64. Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.
Thomas Brooks
#65. He brushed my tears from my face. How did I find you?
Tammara Webber
#66. It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness.
Oscar Milosz
#67. If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.
Billy Graham
#68. For four hundred years the blacks of Haiti had yearned for peace. for three hundred years the island was spoken of as a paradise of riches and pleasures, but that was in reference to the whites to whom the spirit of the land gave welcome. Haiti has meant split blood and tears for blacks.
Zora Neale Hurston
#69. Sure, there were a few more duct-taped tears in the vinyl seats, a few new dings in the fiberglass surfboards lining the walls, but the bacon was still crisp and pancakes were available twenty-four hours a day, the way the good Lord intended.
Rob Thomas
#70. What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears ... deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping ... it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness
David Wilkerson
#71. More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.
Thomas Guthrie
#72. Rose,sensing her mother's distress ... She did not face me, but I could feel the vibration of tears, a kind of pain hive,rustling inside her.
Aimee Bender
#73. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#74. Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
Loretta Young
#75. I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who ... prayed..with ... unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#76. Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
W. Somerset Maugham
#77. May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears.
Chief Dan George
#78. Mom was getting really worked up, and tears began to trickle down her cheeks. As I'm sure you know, it's a really, really bad sign when your mom starts crying. It can't get much worse than that. Mom tears are one of the most powerful forces in the universe.
Stephen Altrogge
#79. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
Florence King
#80. My eyes fill, hot with tears. Because, apparently, casual crying is just something that I do now.
Emery Lord
#81. It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
Marcel Proust
#82. I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy.
Marianne Curley
#83. Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
Pablo Neruda
#84. The Bagman lived in a castle made from the tears of children, the bones of the brave and the sighs of the dead.
Rachael McKay
#86. I just inhaled kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may be obscured by tears.
MCM
#87. They appear in the doorway, holding tea and toast, their faces filled with concern. I open my mouth, planning to start off with some kind of joke, and burst into tears. So much for being strong.
Suzanne Collins
#88. I feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.
Camila Alves
#89. Pitching ... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
Dennis Eckersley
#90. Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,
a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!
Sophie Swetchine
#91. Normal. She wanted normal and so did I. "You know what's normal?"
"What?" She wiped away her remaining tears. "Calculus.
Katie McGarry
#92. Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin. Joanna about Ben
Vicki Pettersson
#94. Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.
Bill Rancic
#95. Are you all right, my luv?" asked a lady who had moved from the other side of the carriage to sit next to Old Jack. "Yes, thank you," he said, the tears streaming down his face. "It's just that I was released from prison today.
Jeffrey Archer
#96. Don't let one shade tears for u, wen they go from your life,u will be left with those tears in your eyes.
Debolina Bhawal
#97. In my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night
Allen Ginsberg
#98. You get such a kick and then it's all over. That's good ground for uncertainty and depression. I usually burst into tears.
Kylie Minogue
#99. He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears.
Cassandra Clare
#100. The Northern races are the tragic races
they don't indulge in the cheering luxury of tears.
F Scott Fitzgerald
