Top 100 Tears Are Quotes
#1. I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
Barbara De Angelis
#2. The woman did not sob nor weep. She had gone to a place where tears are dry; but every one around her was, in some way characteristic of themselves, showing signs of hearty sympathy.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#3. Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.
Paulo Coelho
#4. Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
Paul McCartney
#5. Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
Walter Scott
#7. But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.
May Sarton
#8. All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
Mary Baker Eddy
#9. Everything changes, today's tears are tomorrow's absurdities, after all.
Joan D. Vinge
#11. Our trusting the Lord does not mean that there are not times of tears. I think it is a mistake as Christians to act as though trusting the Lord and tears are not compatible.
Francis Schaeffer
#12. Tears are not to be wasted on what we cannot help, Lily. If you must be brave, then be as brave as you can.
Tom Murphy
#13. Tears are words the heart cannot express
Gerard Way
#14. Tears are part of the leeway of the common areas of a hospital, since so many have to do their crying away from the patient's bed. You don't care who sees you cry in the lobby: it was port of entry for all the sorrows, and one gave up all one's previous citizenship at the border.
Paul Monette
#16. Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.
Aisha Mirza
#17. I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.
Miranda July
#18. You thought you'd never see me again. You loooove me and you miiiissed me. You--Holy hell. Are those tears? Are you crying?"
"I just have something in my eye."
"You're right. No tears here, either. Definitely the rain. It's really wet out here.
Elizabeth May
#19. Tears are words the heart can't express
Gerard Way
#20. 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.
Rene Daumal
#21. Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .
Albert Smith
#22. You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
Alexandre Dumas
#23. Tears are kind of like urine. There is only so long you can hold them in.
Julie Buxbaum
#24. Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
Ovid
#25. Sometimes you brush against a truth, feeling it before you can say it, and instead of theories or conclusions, tears are the evidence it leaves.
Dianna Ortiz
#26. Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.
Pope Francis
#27. You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.
George R R Martin
#30. I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.
Terry Pratchett
#31. Our tears are trying to serve a purpose, but we rarely let them. I don't know how we got started with subverting that purpose.
Hugh Howey
#33. Laughter and tears are not separate experiences, with intervals of rest: they rush out together and it is like walking with a sword between your legs.
Anais Nin
#34. And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#35. Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...
Jean Ingelow
#36. Crying feels so good sometimes, and I do it when I'm happy, sad, stressed, scared. I like to believe that tears are my friend.
Renee Marino
#37. All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.
William Butler Yeats
#38. Hopefully, my tears are worth something to the outside world.
Rachael Yamagata
#39. Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They're a sign of FRUSTRATION. She's only crying so she won't cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.
Donna Barr
#41. Begin to do what speaks to the passionate kid within you and makes you laugh so hard your belly hurts. Rediscover the things that move you and bring tears to your eyes - after all, the place where tears are brought to your eyes is the place where the universe wants you to be.
Robin S. Sharma
#42. My struggle will be the root of my success story and my patience will soon fill my cup of prosperity...My tears are temporary.-Lekisha
Lekisha Lyles
#44. Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
David Richo
#45. We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.
Jesse Jackson
#47. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. - Gandalf the Grey, The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
#50. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
#52. I love the tempestuousness of oceans and the calmness and solitude of lakes. Also, sensuality that drips and runs down the spine. And I'm not afraid to cry. Tears are a form of expression, and that's sexy.
David Boreanaz
#54. Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.
Brian Jacques
#55. Smile is the arch of an arrowed heart
Tears are waters to make pain's life start
Munia Khan
#56. All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
Hermann Hesse
#57. All my trapped tears are in there like poison, but I can't let them out.
Sarah Rubin
#58. I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes,
my rage, forgetting everything,
I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic
shops,
and courtyards with washing hanging from the line:
underwear, towels and shirts from which slow
dirty tears are falling.
Pablo Neruda
#59. It often happens with grown-ups that their tears are misunderstood. (Who can know which time in their lives they are reliving?)
John Irving
#60. Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#61. 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
#62. More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.
Thomas Guthrie
#63. Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
Loretta Young
#64. 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
#66. Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.
A.R. Von
#67. Tears are the silent language of grief
Voltaire
#69. tears are a silent passion for suffering-
i found ma self baffeld by hers-
the way they trickled in the presence if moonlight,
driven by the humans didnt undrstand her...
Christopher Poindexter
#70. Tears are often a gift from God, and sadness is a healthy emotion.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#71. My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#72. Tears are infinitely more precious than blood. Blood spurts from the body; tears stream from the soul.
Sweety Shinde
#74. And even if I'd wanted to mourn, four or five million were too many to shed tears over. Tears are more personal than that. We don;t read a news story about twenty thousand dead in an earthquake and weep. at best, we sigh and tell the wife. More often, we shrug and go check our Facebook messages.
Adrian Barnes
#76. I can tell you a lot of things about bullying and what it does to a person." Tears are forming in his eyes as he continues."But sadly, I can't tell you that I've done my part to make it stop.
Jeff Erno
#77. Our tears are what happens when it rains deep inside our hearts and we cannot hold the rain any longer.
Philippos Syrigos
#80. If eyes are windows to the soul, then tears are heavens rain.
Anthony Liccione
#83. I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves
Shauna Niequist
#84. I might have been calm, but my dear father was near tears. 'Are you all right, jani?' he said. 'Aba,' I said, trying to reassure him. 'Everybody knows they will die someday. No one can stop death. It doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or from cancer.
Malala Yousafzai
#85. Tears are only for those who care to see you sad; a badly broken heart never cries.
M.F. Moonzajer
#86. One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.
Charles Dickens
#88. Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.
Paul Verlaine
#89. Safety is in Heaven. Put your values there only; put your heart there. No tears are there to flood your heart, no sorrows there to break it, no losses there to grieve and embitter.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#90. My tears are like a whole pack of dogs on leashes; no matter how I try to tug them back, they just keep barreling forward.
Holly Schindler
#91. Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
Samuel Johnson
#92. Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.
Erica Jong
#93. You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you're walking fast, if the sun's too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people's consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.
Jerry Pinto
#94. For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.
Juvenal
#95. No more lies, little slave. I want all of you--your honest truth. You're mine. Even your tears are mine." ~His Human Slave
Renee Rose
#96. Tears are useless things; tiny droplets of salt infused water, insignificant and pitiful.
Pippa DaCosta
#97. I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
Aimee Bender
#98. Survivors learn early on that tears are a luxury for the protected.
Elizabeth Isaacs
