Top 100 The Tears Quotes
#1. I acknowledge to myself that sometimes I am a snail. I move myself by gliding. I contract my muscles and produce a slime of tears. Sometimes you see the tears and sometimes you don't. It is my tears that allow me to glide.
Chinelo Okparanta
#2. In the dark, the little live Christmas tree, two feet tall, sparkled with tiny coloured lights, like the tears I saw glistening in my brother's eyes.
V.C. Andrews
#3. Let go, gatito. Mourn and then move on. Your life is not over. Not by any means. So let the tears fall for the past and then we will speak of the future.
Laura Baumbach
#4. Our lives are measured by the love we give, the wisdom we impart, the laughter we create, the truth we tell, the tears we dry, and the wounds we heal.
David W. Wiersbe
#5. I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.
Jane Elliot
#6. And with that he began to laugh, not a laugh either, but a cackle, a hideous cackle like a rooster with its head on the block. It got him so badly that he had to stop and hold his guts; the tears were streaming down his eyes and between the cackles he let out the most terrible heartrending sobs.
Henry Miller
#7. The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Samuel Richardson
#8. Do the right thing cause after the tears come the cheers.
DMX
#9. The two of them holding each other, the tears flowing freely now, as if by never letting go they would never have to say goodbye.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#10. Aww, did we masturbate through the tears last night?
Kresley Cole
#11. When the dark clouds accompany us with the furious concert of Thunder, then the liberating rain will finally wipe away the tears from our cheeks.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#12. The path to misery is paved by the tears of those trying to make others happy.
Steve Maraboli
#13. I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
Samuel Beckett
#14. When she realized that the tears might be as persistent as the shakes, she ran for the only medicine that reliably cured any bout of unpleasant feelings: a book. Although
Dean Koontz
#15. The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they'll forget.
Akhil Sharma
#16. Just give us until Rome."
The tears escaped.
"Just give us until Rome, Melanie.
T.M. Williams
#17. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
William Wordsworth
#18. But now it was he, not they, who crossed the street, so they would not see the tears he could no longer hold back, not his midnight tears, as he thought, but other tears: the ones he had been swallowing for fifty-one years, nine months and four days.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#19. The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor. Words float up
Me: "Let me tell you about it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#20. I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show.
Eileen Munroe
#21. Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.
Mat Kearney
#22. I'd come to terms with what I did long ago. The bodies, the blood, the tears of those left behind. Even the fact I was probably going to burn in hell didn't bother me. Much.
Jennifer Estep
#23. And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky.
'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.'
'I told you that you would like it on the moon.
Shirley Jackson
#24. There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
Dorothy Dix
#25. I choke then. The tears roll down. It's all them white peoples that breaks me, standing around the colored neighborhood. White peoples with guns, pointed at colored peoples. Cause who gone protect our peoples? Ain't no colored policemans.
Kathryn Stockett
#26. The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.
Alexander MacLaren
#27. I don't cry to get my way," I defended my emotional inabilities, and then began wiping away the tears. "It's just this is really hard."
"Annalisa, if I thought for one second that the tears were fake, you wouldn't sway me. But, I've never seen so many honest tears in my life.
Lindsay Delagair
#28. I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.
Aleister Crowley
#29. I was surprised to feel the tears running down my cheeks. Was this part of the reason fate had brought Arabella and I together all those years ago? Or was fate finally providing a way for our love to live on?
Rose Wynters
#30. Let go, let go, let go,
Just let it go,
Let the tears come out,
Stop fighting the tears back,
Stop wearing different masks,
Let yourself be seen,
Let yourself be the real you,
Julie Jewels Smoot
#31. The tears of the compassionate are sweeter than dewdrops falling from roses on the bosom of the earth. Shut not thine ear, therefore, against the cries of the poor, neither harden thine heart against the calamities of the innocent.
Robert Dodsley
#32. Why is it?.. I'm so sad and so lonely. But the tears just won't come.
Hiro Mashima
#33. Houses" - so the Wise Men tell me
"Mansions"! Mansions must be warm!
Mansions cannot let the tears in,
Mansions must exclude the storm!
"Many Mansions," by "his Father,"
I don't know him; snugly built!
Could the Children find the way there
Some, would even trudge tonight!
Emily Dickinson
#34. To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.
Pope Francis
#35. Everything was forgotten: the pain, the heartache, the tears, the club we were in, the people watching; everything was gone in an instant, and I was lost in him.
Kirsty Moseley
#36. And then it was my turn to blink back the tears. It wasn't like I was ever going to replace my mother; but it felt special to be accepted, with all my flaws, by the mother of the person I might marry (p.200)
Kiera Cass
#37. I began my first Cabinet meeting since the terrorist attacks. As I stepped into the room, the team broke out in sustained applause. I was surprised, and I choked up at their heartfelt support. The tears flowed for the second time in two days.
George W. Bush
#38. Eddie, It's like you died that night, he whispers.
So that's it. I died.
I've been dead.
I blink back the tears and pick at the mattress, but I don't say anything. I don't know what I could say to him. I don't know how to convince him I'm still here when I'm not sure of it myself anymore.
Courtney Summers
#39. Turning her face away from him, she let the tears fall at last. They were carried away on the wind as if they'd never been. Much like her.
Rosalie Lario
#40. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York was in heavy boots.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#41. Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.
Claire Messud
#42. Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.
Debasish Mridha
#43. Only a smile
can make the tears dissapear
Mario
#44. But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else - the cold and where he'd go in it - was outside, for a while anyway.
Raymond Carver
#45. Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?
Dave Matthews
#46. My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.
Keith Ablow
#47. But I am not allowed to forget
The taste of the tears of yesterday.
Anna Akhmatova
#48. I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart ... The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence ... When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.
James Martineau
#49. I would have been different too, without you. Weaker, reckless." He smiled slightly. "Afraid of the dark." He brushed the tears from my cheeks. I wasn't sure when they'd started. "But no matter who or what I was, I would have been yours.
Leigh Bardugo
#50. As the tears coated his cheeks, he told himself, Anthony Rawlings doesn't cry. He doesn't apologize, and he doesn't
Aleatha Romig
#51. Of all records, Chase, Some Girls! It was in a clutch of the most horrendous crap, J. Geils Band, Sniff 'n' the Tears, the kind of albums you'd use for landfill.
Jonathan Lethem
#52. Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#53. The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
Khalil Gibran
#54. I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!
Angela Merkel
#56. I didn't want to cry in front of you."
He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb.
"I want you to cry only in front of me.
Robyn Carr
#57. The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.
Stephen King
#59. The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
Stephen Leacock
#60. I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.
Kahlil Gibran
#61. Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#62. She wanted to cry but the tears would not come. They seemed to flood her chest, and they were hot tears that burned under her bosom, but they would not flow.
Margaret Mitchell
#63. The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. I felt the tears streak down my cheeks but I wasn't crying.
Tahereh Mafi
#65. How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?
Girdhar Joshi
#66. Thank you," he was whispering, "thank you, thank you. ... " And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.
Alexandra Bracken
#68. I give the character a history and a full life; this way the tears come naturally for the character in whatever situation calls for tears. Also, sometimes a certain song will help me feel emotions that evoke tears.
Danielle Panabaker
#69. I talk and cry
while Nico sits and listens.
Like we've been friends forever.
Finally, I use the shirt
to wipe the tears
and take a deep breath.
We're quiet
for a long time
and then Nico points
to a pair of boxer shorts on the floor.
I'm glad you picked the shirt.
Lisa Schroeder
#70. The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can't stop.
Laura Esquivel
#71. She had found the Tears of Idihet.
As she stared, they began to blur. Distantly she marveled at this: the wisdom of her body, which already understood the consequences of this discovery - the conclusions which her mind revolved and revolved around, but refused to grasp.
Meredith Duran
#72. The tears finally got the best of him and he pressed his palms to his eyes as his shoulders started to shake. He cried silently, in so much pain that there was no sound to equal it
Robin Benway
#73. Is there any good left in the world/ And if there is, can you still find it in the places that matter? Why is it that the only places i see it now, is in the graves of the victims, and the tears of those who mourn them?
Christina Engela
#74. Hold on to the thought that no emotion lasts forever, no matter how wonderful or how terrible the emotion may be. The tears may last a little longer than you would like, but it will get better. I promise.
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#75. Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.
Marianne Williamson
#76. I smiled to fight the tears. "Fifty bucks says you'll be thanking me for this when you meet your future wife."
Travis's eyebrow pulled together as his face fell. "That's an easy bet. The only woman I'd ever wanna marry just broke my heart.
Jamie McGuire
#77. Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.
Charles Lamb
#78. When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little stone in her chest.
Francine Rivers
#79. I didn't know someone could cry that much, I thought the tears would run out. They don't.
Sara Quin
#81. And standing there ... old Abbie Deal began to cry. They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#82. The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.
Faraaz Kazi
#83. When I cry, do you want the tears to run all the way or shall I stop halfway down?
Margaret O'Brien
#84. I'm so afraid to speak.
So afraid to move my lips.
I'm so scared that if I move even an inch, my body will snap in half and everyone will see that my insides are made up of nothing but all the tears I'm swallowing back right now.
Tahereh Mafi
#85. He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
Lois Lowry
#86. It's okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,
like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it's vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.
Lynda Cheldelin Fell
#87. Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult world than any other member of our family. Pg.100
Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
#88. She's absolutely beautiful. Her hope is beautiful. The smile on her face is beautiful. The tears streaming down her cheeks are beautiful.
Her
love
is
beautiful.
Colleen Hoover
#89. Without these supernova explosions, there are no mist-covered swamps, computer chips, trilobites, Mozart or the tears of a little girl. Without exploding stars, perhaps there could be a heaven, but there is certainly no Earth.
Clifford A. Pickover
#90. Be mindful of the prayers you send
pray hard but pray with care
for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers
letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around
so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down
Nick Cave
#91. The tears of those who cry for others shine more than the diamonds.
Rangeya Raghav
#92. The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't give a damn about the walls and carpet. They could be replaced, but I'd collected those damned stuffed toys over years.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#93. We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean.
Taylor Rhodes
#94. Fate will make things right in the end, though only after the work has been done, the tears have been shed and the sleepless nights have been endured.
Nadia Hashimi
#95. Women hold their councils of war in kitchens: the knives are there, and the cups of coffee, and the towels to dry the tears.
Patricia A. McKillip
#96. She's holding it together, too, and I want to tell her she doesn't have to do that for me, because I might not be able to do it or her. I can tell she's also trying not to look back, but she does it - she looks over her shoulder - and the tears won't leave her eyes.
David Levithan
#97. And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung.
Thomas Mann
#98. All we can do now is hope.'
I nodded, fighting back the tears. Tired of that word that asked so much, and gave so little in return.
Lily Graham
#99. I love you, Caitlin.
I leaned in and kissed him, holding back the tears in the realization that he was able to put into words what I was willing to lose my life over.
Anna Lazaridis
#100. I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child
Thomas Burnett Swann
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