Top 100 Tear Quotes
#1. I have not healed so much as learned to sit still and wait while pain does its dancing work, trying not to panic or twist in ways that make the blades tear deeper, finally infecting the wounds.
Lauren Slater
#2. And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
William Cowper
#3. You pakeha," she murmured, "all your streets must be straight and even. You tear them from the earth without hearing its groans. And yet the winding, rocky ways are the shorter ones if you take them in peace.
Sarah Lark
#4. I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.
David Hasselhoff
#5. Right now there's a man on the street outside my door
with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear.
He has cheeks like torn sheet music
every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears.
At his side there's a boy with eyes like an anthem
no one stands up for.
Andrea Gibson
#6. Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge.
Reiko Saibara
#7. By learning to sew, you give your clothes several more good years of wear and tear.
Grace Collins
#9. Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write.
Why me?
Christopher Moore
#10. And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said seemed strangely answered now. Could it be I'm in love? Could it be I'm in love?
Jann Arden
#11. V, you know I love you like a brother, right?"
"Yeah."
"You feed her and I'll tear out your fucking throat out.
J.R. Ward
#12. Me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.
David Levithan
#13. 'The Notebook' gets me every time. It's a great love story. Boy from the wrong side of the tracks. They get on each other's nerves, but they can't live without each other. It almost makes me shed a tear.
Michael Strahan
#14. He stood for a moment, bereavement a sudden, small tear in his soul.
Diana Gabaldon
#15. Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
Sathya Sai Baba
#16. True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
Anthony Albanese
#17. What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
#18. How can any child grope its way through life if its parents or guardians tear up all the pages of the past?
Elizabeth Cadell
#19. You're already naked in this world
in this time
in this life
beacause your next love
your next hunger
you next laughter
and even your next tear
may never come
Baharak Sedigh
#20. I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
Ted Dekker
#21. In Britain, you know there are people waiting to tear your stuff apart, so it's important for me to know that my music has subtleties and depth to it.
Calvin Harris
#22. come on mama, let's rent us a boat
sail down that gibraltar moat
shed a tear every time we pass tangier
Townes Van Zandt
#23. Secrets, Charley," my mother whispered. "They'll tear you apart.
Mitch Albom
#24. I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.
Elizabeth Kostova
#25. Filming a drama is something which you can't tear yourself away.
Joo Won
#26. Three thousand bodies swing forward, three thousand pairs of boots snap together, three thousand backs jerk as if yanked straight by a puppeteer's hand. In the ensuing silence, you could hear a tear drop.
Sabaa Tahir
#27. It takes a thousand bricks to build a wall, but only one to tear it down.
Markus W. Lunner
#28. Every day another miracle
Only death will tear us apart
To sacrifice a life for yours
I'd be the blood of the Lazarus heart
The blood of the Lazarus heart
Sting
#29. Anger seek it prey,
Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
George Eliot
#30. Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when
Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,
A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear
Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.
William Davenant
#31. Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.
Robert Henri
#33. Dauntless is the cruelest of the five
They tear each other to pieces ...
Erudite is the coldest of the five
Knowledge is a costly thing ...
Veronica Roth
#34. You really are a pain in the ass," he laughs. I swat him playfully, laughing too as a single tear rolls down my cheek. He wipes it away and tucks my hair behind my ear, "But you're my pain in the ass.
Kandi Steiner
#35. You are the only person who can build emotional barriers, but you're also the only person who can topple them. Other people can't knock down the walls you've built, no matter how much they love you. You have to tear them down yourself because there's something worth seeing on the other side.
Emery Lord
#36. Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?"
"Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.
Kimberly Montague
#37. Thy voice I seem in ev'ry hymn to hear, with ev'ry bead I drop too soft a tear ...
Alexander Pope
#38. I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart.
Patti Smith
#39. Whenever it rains, I remember him, not as a tear that hails down as a raindrop, but as a God of fertility. As, every time I remember him, his memories conceive a baby of emotions in me!
Mehek Bassi
#40. What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.
Vladimir Nabokov
#41. We continue to love in spite of the pain, tears & heartbreak. Perhaps the pain makes us stronger, the tear makes us braver & the heartbreak makes us wiser.
Jeanette
#42. As a writer, I will go down any dark alley, inch my way through the tightest crawl space, and feed on your every fear. I will take your sense of calm and tear it to shreds. - Horror Author Barbara Watkins
Barbara Watkins
#43. 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
#45. Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.
Abraham Lincoln
#46. This is your home." He reached up his other hand and gripped my face, pressing down hard against my cheeks.
I nodded.
"Say it!"
"I won't run," I whispered as I watched an angry tear trickling from his eye. I leaned forward and licked it away.
T.J. Klune
#47. It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
Kahlil Gibran
#48. I've been alone with him countless times, but this feels different. Here there are no eyes waiting to catch us, no voices waiting to shout at us, no hands ready to tear us apart
just miles and miles of space. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.
Lauren Oliver
#49. the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
Anonymous
#50. The veil I wore was much like the shield I had been wrapped in for my entire life. But I was ready to tear it down and show the world who I really was and see what it had to offer.
C.M. Doporto
#51. You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
James A. Garfield
#52. No," I said. "I'm not safe, Belen. Who is going to tear Kerrick's arm off if he hits me again? Come on," I urged. "Stay with us".
Maria V. Snyder
#53. No," said Magnus. "Nor do I intend to tear my whole life into strips and rearrange it because of a baby." What he said sounded eminently reasonable to him. He was stunned when Robert and Maryse both laughed.
Cassandra Clare
#54. They were beautiful beyond words, beautiful beyond understanding. So beautiful, I wanted to tear out my heart and hand it over, because after seeing them, I surely wouldn't have any more use for it.
Sarah Zettel
#55. The open zipper at the bottom revealed two important details: her ass was as luscious as he had imagined, and she wasn't wearing any panties. His palms started to sweat. How was he supposed to fasten her dress when all he wanted to do was tear it off?
Stacey O'Neale
#56. What if no one can fix me?"
"You don't need fixing." He gives a sad smile and wipes a tear away with his thumb. "It's like your mosaics. The beauty is already there, you just find it. Let go, sweetheart.
Lexi Ryan
#58. Musicians have always had a better understanding of love than the rest of us. Over the years they have told us that love: is like a rock, is here to stay, is all you need, will find a way, will keep us together, will tear us apart, sucks.
Cuthbert Soup
#59. I can't help but smile as I swipe a lone tear trailing down my cheek. How can I not be crazy in love with this guy? Time away from him didn't change anything. I can't deny him another chance. That would be denying myself.
Simone Elkeles
#60. 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.
Ken Mehlman
#61. It was hard to let go of love. Once woven, its ribbon was hard to tear, and this one she'd woven quite firmly herself.
Cornelia Funke
#62. In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.
Garth Stein
#63. The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.
Annette Curtis Klause
#64. People die', she says. 'People tear down houses. But furniture, fine, beautiful furniture, it just goes on and on, surviving everything.' She says, 'Armoires are the cockroaches of our culture.
Chuck Palahniuk
#65. All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Martin Luther
#66. It won't be a quick break, either. It'll be slow and painful, filled with so many momenta like these that tear me up from the inside out
Colleen Hoover
#67. She smiles, but her eyes are glassy, like a dormant part of her is fighting its way out and spilling over. The train hisses over the rails, a tear drops down Tris's cheek, and the city disappears into the darkness.
Veronica Roth
#68. Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.
Rick Riordan
#69. Me wondering why they don't say nothing about a kiss being salty as a tear.
Lindsay Hunter
#70. 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.
Alice Hoffman
#71. I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.
Jaimie Alexander
#72. Now he tried to find strength to tear himself away and go on a lonely journey
for vengeance. If once he could go, his anger would bear him down all the roads of the world, pursuing, until he had him at last: Gollum. Then Gollum would die in a corner.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#73. I bet if I give all my love then nothing's gonna tear us apart.
Drake
#74. Trust is like a tear, once it is dropped, it cannot go back.
Eyden I.
#75. I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.
Elias Koteas
#76. There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#77. I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.
Bruce Springsteen
#79. I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart
Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.
Bruce Springsteen
#80. It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.
Diane Arbus
#81. The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.
C.S. Lewis
#82. Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.
Tyler Hamilton
#83. There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall. If it would land on me, that would say it all.
Tim McGraw
#84. Everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#85. Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.
Chris Abani
#86. Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."
A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."
Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.
Rick Riordan
#87. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus
#88. Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
Barack Obama
#89. When abandoned women follow their fleeing males with tear-stained faces, screaming you can't do this to me, they reveal that all that they have offered in the name of generosity and altruism has been part of an assumed transaction, in which they were entitled to a certain payoff.
Germaine Greer
#90. I am going to tear apart your pathetic little magical remnant of the Dark Ages into pieces smaller than its constituent atoms.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#91. I got my career started late so, even though I'm getting older, I don't have as much wear and tear on my arm. I feel good. I really do.
Kurt Warner
#92. Dawn is coming. I can feel it pressing against the darkness like a weight about to tear the night apart.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#93. I really was never any more than what I was -a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze.
Bob Dylan
#94. Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.
Seth Adam Smith
#95. He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?'
'We do.' I smiled.
He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me.
'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.
Michelle Cohen Corasanti
#96. The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion
they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#97. Please don't cry one tear for me, I'm not afraid of what I have to say.This is my one and only voice, so listen close ... it's only for today.
Shinedown
#99. Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.
Glenn Beck
