Tears Quotes
4990 quotes by 2850 authors
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
— J. J. Abrams
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
— Saint Augustine
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Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
— Alfred Austin
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
— Teresa of Avila
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
— Hosea Ballou
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When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may…
— William Barclay
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It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
— Amelia Barr
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Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product.…
— William Bernbach
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of…
— Samuel Beckett
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
— Kristen Bell
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I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success.…
— Ingrid Bergman
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility…
— Alfred Adler
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There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not…
— Michael Ian Black
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
— Aeschylus
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some…
— William Blake
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
— Victor Borge
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news…
— Jimmy Breslin
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