Quotes about Tears

"I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry."
-Jean Rhys

"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?"
-Kirsten Dunst

"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.'"
-Sir Winston Churchill

"I go into ecstasies every time I see the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks."
-Anne Frank

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came."
-John F. Kennedy

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

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet."
-William Shakespeare

"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."
-Seneca

"It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears."
-Theodore Roosevelt

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."
-Charles Dickens

"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit."
-Kin Hubbard

"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death."
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Live to the point of tears."
-Albert Camus

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."
-Ludwig van Beethoven

"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
-Charles Peguy

"Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief."
-Publilius Syrus

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

"Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears."
-Lope De Vega

"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought."
-Louis Kronenberger

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

"This was a patient who chronically screamed at my secretary, who was very seasoned, ... He once even brought her to tears. I could have handled him, but he really upset my staff and other patients."
-C. Hughes

"You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it."
-Clive Barker

"They salute the boys, and my tears start flowing."
-Karla Comfort

"This has been a time of tears and a time of laughter, a time of celebration and a time of mourning, a time of story telling and a time of lament."
-Jim Short

"Last Monday, a tragic series of errors, negligence and accidents suddenly cast us into darkness, tears, wounds and mourning."
-Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

"The muscle that is down there contracts and pulls so hard that it tears away from the bone and pulls some of the bone with it."
-Phillip Brown

"There were tears in (her) eyes when she told me that she wasn't going to make it."
-Jerry O'connell