Tears Quotes

Most popular tears quotes

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stoew quote.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. - Natalie Clifford Barney quote.
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

face

When we grieve, tears and guilt get mixed together. - Art Buchwald quote.
When we grieve, tears and guilt get mixed together.

sorrow

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow. - Sholom Aleichem quote.
When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

heart

Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing. - Dorothy Parker quote.
Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.

kiss

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quote.
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.

laughter

It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes. - Madame de Sevigne quote.
It is not always sorrow that opens the fountains of the eyes.
Madame de Sevigne Letters of Madame de Sévigné to her Daughter and Her Friends

sorrow

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. - Isak Dinesen quote.
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.

sweat

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of.  A tear may be the poetical resumé of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! - Henri-Frédéric Amiel quote.
One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of.  A tear may be the poetical resumé of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts!
Tears express joy as well as sadness.  They are the symbol of the powerlessness of the soul to restrain its emotion. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel quote.
Tears express joy as well as sadness.  They are the symbol of the powerlessness of the soul to restrain its emotion.
Tears are summer showers to the soul.
Tears often prove the telescope by which men see far into heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
Tears often prove the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
— The Bible—Book of Psalms: 126:5

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There is no aristocracy in grief, no privilege of purple in the aches of the heart, and though certain blood may plume itself on its blueness, common salt is the scalding quality of all tears.
Tears are Nature's lotion for the eyes.  The eyes see better for being washed with them.
Frequent tears have run
The colors from my life. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote.
Frequent tears have run
The colors from my life.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Beware of men who cry.  It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. - Nora Ephron quote.
Beware of men who cry.  It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
Tears are a river that take you somewhere.
For women, tears are the beginning of initiation into the Scar Clan, that timeless tribe of women of all colors, all nations, all languages, who down through the ages have lived through a great something, and yet who stood proud, still stand proud.
Those who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears. - Euripides quote.
Those who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides quote.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Nothing dries sooner than a tear. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Nothing dries sooner than a tear.
Tears are the noble language of the eyes. - Robert Herrick quote.
Tears are the noble language of the eyes.
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he
Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality. - Juvenal quote.
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he
Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.
Delicious tears!  The heart's own dew. - Letitia Landon quote.
Delicious tears!  The heart's own dew.
The tears of strangers are only water.
— Russian proverb

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As soap is to the body, tears are to the soul.
— Jewish proverb

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If you look closer it's easy to trace
The tracks of my tears.
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry quote.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there! - George Sand quote.
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
Tears are God's gift to us.  Our holy water.  They heal us as they flow.
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. - Seneca quote.
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it. - Publilius Syrus quote.
Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.
My heart today smiles at its past night of tears
like a wet tree glistening in the sun
after the rain is over. - Rabindranath Tagore quote.
My heart today smiles at its past night of tears
like a wet tree glistening in the sun
after the rain is over.
Tears are the silent language of grief. - Voltaire quote.
Tears are the silent language of grief.
I am afraid of people
who cannot cry
Tears left unshed
turn to poison
in the ducts. - Alice Walker quote.
I am afraid of people
who cannot cry
Tears left unshed
turn to poison
in the ducts.