Tears Quotes

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

I wonder at the idleness of tears.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but she had to pull the emergency brake so obviously there was a problem. I remember them handing me my fail paper and me just bursting into tears.

Without going into too much detail, the end of my major action scene, after the climax of the scene, there was one little change that I suggested regarding the way things should turn out. It was in the detail of the tears of blood.

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

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

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

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Well, I would have much preferred to have had a normal childhood. I would have loved it if my greatest dilemma, at 14, was whether to go to Benetton for my pullovers. I would have preferred not to have cried all the tears I have cried.

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

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 and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

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

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.

Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.