Tear Quotes
1250 Tear quotes by 862 unique authors
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So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long…
— Brian Jacques
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I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows…
— J D Salinger
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On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that…
— Philip Pullman
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Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you,…
— Janet Fitch
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If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as…
— Leonard Cohen
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That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
— Nick Hornby
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Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw…
— Haruki Murakami
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Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
— Alexandre Dumas
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Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing…
— Martin Amis
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It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust…
— Virginia Woolf
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It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul…
— Thomas Moore
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It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most…
— Upton Sinclair
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There's a terrible stillness. I notice a small tear in the wallpaper above her shoulder. I notice finger marks grimed on the light switch. Somewhere…
— Jenny Downham
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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 by…
— James A. Baldwin
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She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his lips. He tasted…
— Markus Zusak
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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and…
— John Steinbeck
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I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept…
— Anton Chekhov
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I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.
— Dodie Smith
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The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one…
— Hermann Hesse
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His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.
— Jodi Picoult
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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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