Tears Quotes

• My country tears of thee.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Country
  • Tears

• Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Fall
  • Years
  • Moon

• Tears. They’re like seeds in a watermelon. Good for spitting out.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Tears
  • Seeds
  • Watermelon

• She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • She
  • Rest
  • Years

• Wrinkles are ditches that the gods have dug for our tears.

  

  Emile Augier
  • Tears
  • Gods
  • Wrinkles

• How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Religious
  • Eye
  • Interest

• The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Band
  • Taken
  • Bored

• One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Deception
  • Proofs
  • Slyness

• Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Singing
  • Years
  • Laughter

• Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Blend

• If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.

  James Tate
  • Tears

• Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • God
  • Long
  • May

• When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

  

  John Sexton
  • Eyes
  • Tears

• Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Eyes
  • Hand
  • Eye

• And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Tears
  • Fears
  • Bride

• The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Guy

• We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

  

  Michael Ondaatje
  • Tears
  • Them
  • Reduced

• Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Tears
  • Grief

• The wounds I carry, she carries them too. The unshed tears in my head flow through her heart too .

  

  Song Joong-ki
  • Heart
  • She
  • Tears

• I Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See

  

  Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • World
  • Looks
  • Dry

• Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

  

  Craig Brown
  • May
  • Tears

• 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.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Childhood
  • Tears

• ...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heaven
  • Tears
  • Listen

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