Tears Quotes

4990 Tears quotes by 2520 unique authors

I have shed pewter tears! It is too melancholy! Rather let me go to the wars and lose arms and legs! It would at least… — Hans Christian Andersen
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry. — Bret Harte
As my mom wiped the tears from my face, she said, 'Tyra, you know what we’re going to do about this? We’re going to go… — Tyra Banks
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I… — Petrarch
And tears are heard within the harp I touch. — Petrarch
With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter… — Edward Bellamy
Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save… — Mike Tyson
I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people… — Mike Tyson
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience… — Mahatma Gandhi
The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I… — Rabindranath Tagore
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but… — Emile M. Cioran
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. — Edith Wharton
I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life. — Brooks Robinson
We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again… — Nelson Mandela
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to… — Paul Laurence Dunbar
It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and… — Philip Jose Farmer
One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events… — Kathy Acker
A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal… — Saint Augustine
He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan. — Eliza R. Snow
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day.… — Saint John Chrysostom
There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red… — Sarah Hall
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… — Jane Elliott
If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf — William Butler Yeats

Who Wrote These Tears Quotes

2,520 authors contributed a total of 4,990 Tears Quotes, led by these top contributors: