Tear Quotes
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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Martin Luther -
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Bion of Borysthenes
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Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.
William Allingham -
There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I sit next to Caleb, waiting and thinking about what life really is. About how it has its own will. How it shows you things that rip you open, tear your world apart. How it unfolds even when you think it can't. How it takes you places you never thought you'd be. Shows you things you never knew you wanted to see. Brings you pain - and joy.
Elizabeth Scott -
There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Rudyard Kipling -
And it seemed as if the pounding rain would tear off the roof of their house. For an instant, Andrés felt as if there would never again be any light in their house. It would always be dark. And then he thought that no matter how much they’d tried to change this house into something else, it would always be that house they found the first day they moved in. A house with no light. A house with no one in it. A house that smelled of a hundred years of waste and war. A heartless, heartless house.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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A tear is worth a thousand words.
Colleen Saidman -
The damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.
Winifred Holtby -
Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.
George Eliot -
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
Alexandre Dumas -
We're going to tear those boys apart.
Will Carling -
For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.
Katie Ashley
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I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes.
Norman MacEwen -
Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.
Rumi -
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
Alexandre Dumas -
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Haruki Murakami -
Don't tear your hair out over a woman; it'll be harder to attract the next one if you're bald.
Evan Esar -
It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.
Ella Higginson