Tears Quotes

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.

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 or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.

When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears on a boy. Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry?

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

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

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.