They told me,Heraclitus,they told me you are dead, They…

They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

— William Johnson Cory

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.

— Callimachus

“These tears need to be shed, wept into the earth where there is no hope of consolation. Sometimes a man has to cry alone.”

— Edmond Manning

“love poured to the child…struggle…more struggle…bitter tears… then sweet tears…and finally a life as beautiful and fulfilling as seeing the birth of the full…

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness, such as…

— George Eliot

“A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and your bitter…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I long to see you, in my darkest days, and my joyfullest. I reach out to you, I leave you my bitter tears and…

— Anonymous

“He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up…

— Donna Lynn Hope

By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs...…

— Johnny Cash

“Thalia’s voice was cracking, bitter tears spilling from her eyes. Taylor knew it was time to stop.”

— J.T. Ellison

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

— Edith Piaf

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

— Sarah McLachlan

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you…

— Anonymous

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of…

— Woodrow Wilson

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the…

— Michael Ende