Tears Quotes
4990 Tears quotes by 2520 unique authors
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They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
— Euripides
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Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise…
— Joseph Conrad
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I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may…
— Joseph Conrad
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Tears such as angels weep.
— John Milton
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Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
— Thomas Paine
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For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass…
— Ernest Dowson
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Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
— Georges Courteline
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Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and…
— Raymond E. Feist
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One friend dies and we remain indifferent; another dies, perhaps less intimate, and we see ourselves as dead, and weep, mourn, tear our hair or…
— Fay Weldon
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How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a…
— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked,…
— Peter Abelard
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I've never been one to tear the social fabric.
— Judith Guest
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The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could…
— Victoria Moran
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You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all…
— Don Nelson
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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around.
— Donna Summer
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Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,…
— Jean Baptiste Massillon
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Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win…
— Sally Pearson
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down…
— Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of…
— Kevin Rudd
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A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists…
— Ali Smith
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When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that…
— Frederick Lenz
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