Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. Votes: 6
Gabriel Garcia MarquezWomen are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. Votes: 4
Mignon McLaughlinThere is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. Votes: 4
Washington IrvingTears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. Votes: 4
Billy GrahamThe most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears. Votes: 4
Alfred de MussetTears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. Votes: 4
William Gilmore SimmsTears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears. Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonBeckon The Sea, I'll Come To The.... Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years.... Votes: 3
Terri FarleyTears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog. Votes: 3
Sebastian BarryIf the Olive Trees knew the hands that planted them, Their Oil would become Tears. Votes: 3
Mahmoud DarwishTears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts. Votes: 3
Khalil GibranTears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. Votes: 3
Christian Nestell BoveeTears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it . Votes: 3
Albert SmithLittle drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by. Votes: 3
Robert PlantTears are only for those who care to see you sad; a badly broken heart never cries. Votes: 3
M.F. MoonzajerThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Votes: 2
Harriet Beecher StoweBeauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Votes: 2
Edgar Allan PoeMusic should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Votes: 2
Ludwig van BeethovenWe often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldMy tears are buried in my heart, like cave-locked fountains sleeping. Votes: 0
Letitia Elizabeth LandonThere are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. Votes: 0
Saint Teresa of AvilaShe whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts. Votes: 0
Johann Kaspar LavaterJoy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice Votes: 0
Albert Schweitzerthe rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears ... Votes: 0
Alice Dunbar NelsonSorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world. Votes: 0
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of LyttonThere are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. Votes: 0
Teresa of ÁvilaThere are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. Votes: 0
Teresa of AvilaDon't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey Johnson... in this valley of tears we must expect much sorrow and little consolation. Votes: 0
Jane Frances de ChantalPoetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink. Votes: 0
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIf we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves. Votes: 0
Shauna NiequistI don't care what's probable. Through blood, sweat, and tears, I am unstoppable. Votes: 0
Anthony RoblesShort swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonBut a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. Votes: 0
Hans Christian AndersenToo much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareEyes are vocal, tears have tongues, and there are words not made with lungs. Votes: 0
Richard CrashawWill that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real! Votes: 0
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSwans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads Votes: 0
Henry Noel BrailsfordYour stockings prove your virtues.Be certain they are clean and free of tears. Votes: 0
Emilie AutumnLiterature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears. Votes: 0
Roberto BolanoWhen we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years. Votes: 0
Lord ByronHumanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears. Votes: 0
Karl KrausMy tolerance for tears is very little when you're beautiful and crying over nothing. Votes: 0
Christine Teigenbeyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade Votes: 0
William Ernest HenleyHalf of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerLife is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine. Votes: 0
Norman Vincent PealeJesus will press his thumb against the cheek of humanity and wipe away all tears. Votes: 0
Max LucadoThe true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. Votes: 0
Leopold von Sacher-MasochWhen you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears. Votes: 0
Taylor SwiftAll the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears. Votes: 0
Gerald MasseyA broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears. Votes: 0
George HerbertI made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation. Votes: 0
HirohitoYet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? Votes: 0
Khalil GibranLet no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping. Votes: 0
Quintus EnniusYes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well. Votes: 0
Veronica RothThe Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisNo flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony. Votes: 0
Isadora DuncanShake it off little girl, dry your tears, suck it up and face your fears. Votes: 0
Sai Marie JohnsonThen she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor. Votes: 0
Laura EsquivelMost don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry. Votes: 0
T. Rafael Ciminoit seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! Votes: 0
Zora Neale HurstonWhere God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. Votes: 0
Dietrich BonhoefferTo keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity! Votes: 0
Watchman NeeIf there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little. Votes: 0
Billy GrahamWeep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer. Votes: 0
Sarah WatersWhen I watched Braveheart I was in tears and I was rooting for the Scottish people Votes: 0
Eddie IzzardI've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come. Votes: 0
Aleister CrowleyThe worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling. Votes: 0
Hiro MashimaHad there been no gravity, my tears would have extinguished the fire my head is on. Votes: 0
Junaid e MustafaLet there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further. Votes: 0
AeschylusLove cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. Votes: 0
Jean de La FontaineWhen I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears. Votes: 0
Albert Camuswounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life. Votes: 0
Kishore BansalI would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. Votes: 0
Jacques de LacretelleFor most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks Votes: 0
Na'ima B. RobertDon't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. Votes: 0
Violeta ParraDisney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. Votes: 0
Alfred HitchcockIn any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. Votes: 0
Edith WhartonClean your tears and stop crying; you are not the only one with a broken heart. Votes: 0
M.F. MoonzajerI believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror Votes: 0
Charlie ChaplinThat's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate. Votes: 0
Laurie R. KingLife is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there. Votes: 0
Jean M. AuelGold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day. Votes: 0
Gabby DouglasNo one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears. Votes: 0
Bruce ForsythThe artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Votes: 0
Heinrich HeineI am inspired musically by anyone who can write a song that can bring me to tears. Votes: 0
Kelly BlatzWhat need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerHe wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much. Votes: 0
Nina LaCourDon't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live. Votes: 0
Tony DungyI can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art. Votes: 0
Nick FlynnHe read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain. Votes: 0
Nathanael WestI believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.
Barbara de AngelisThe tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
Stephen LeacockI boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.
Etheridge KnightIt is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
Francois RabelaisBe glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass.
Sarah Knowles BoltonA couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.
Chaske SpencerIt is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.
Heinrich HeineA longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
Hermann HesseI try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy GarlandThere must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Khalil Gibranwho has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
Letitia Elizabeth LandonWhen it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
Sherman AlexieIt is impossible for one to live without tears who considers things exactly as they are.
Gregory of NyssaI'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.
Phoebe Waller-BridgeMany shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
Seneca the YoungerI feel vulnerable in a good way. When I talk about my family, I usually have happy tears.
Camila Alves...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
Harriet Beecher StoweWhen I wake up, my pillow's cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.
Haruki MurakamiTears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)
Kim HarrisonThe tears of anguish irritate and excite; but those of repentance are the ones that wash.
Miguel de UnamunoMay my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.
Paulo CoelhoI have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears.
William ShakespeareThis is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
Elie WieselI will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.
Elisabeth ElliotBut grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.
Elizabeth LesserI always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.
Virginia WoolfO, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister's flood of tears.
William ShakespeareEven when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
Izumi ShikibuAnd we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.
Natalia GinzburgApril, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.
William WatsonWe must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.
Archie Fire Lame DeerGod is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.
Bill JohnsonI would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?
Dean KoontzCeaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.
Murasaki ShikibuWhat if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
Soren KierkegaardI know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.
Susan AbulhawaI recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
Burt BacharachTears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
Italo SvevoThe truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
John StottMoney lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]
JuvenalWhen you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.
Nora RobertsI am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.
Veronica RothOnly someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.
Virginia C. AndrewsEyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.
RajneeshOur present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
Robert HerrickI feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
Elizabeth SmartAnyone who assesses you or your relationship as disposable is not worthy of your time or tears.
Greg BehrendtIn a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.
Herbert M. SheltonThe tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.
John Townsend TrowbridgeI am a 21st century man. I donât believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.
Kamal HaasanThe nation wept tears of remorse for their leader: the tear-gas accomplished what was expected.
MinimaksGod is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
Philibert Joseph RouxI have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead.
Robert Green IngersollIve always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
ThaliaTears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.
Walter ScottI did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyBut, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof.
Charles DickensHe shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
Seneca the YoungerIt is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
Seneca the YoungerI wonder how many tears the ocean has swallowed, how much of the ocean is actually made of tears.
Anna BanksAnd Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.
Cam'ronFor a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
Carlos CastanedaListen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
Dashiell HammettTruth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship. True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneDon't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.
Mat KearneyGlory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.
Pierre-Jean de BerangerIt's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
Ron RashWhat good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
EuripidesI stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
Louise ErdrichOld homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.
Madison CaweinThe common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.
William Wordsworth...How was your... eh... trip?â Artemis felt the sting of tears in his own eyes. "Um, eventful...
Eoin ColferI Shall Look At The World Through Tears. Perhaps I Shall See Things That, Dry-Eyed, I Could Not See
Nicholas WolterstorffWe live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.
Paulo CoelhoHeaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!
Richard Henry StoddardTears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
Samuel JohnsonGo ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.
Sharon M. DraperI wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.
Wendelin Van DraanenNo more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.
Andrew Lloyd WebberSo here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.
Chris CheliosIf your soul needs healing, the prescription you need is not Chuck Norris' tears, it's Jesus' blood.
Chuck NorrisThese tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
George SandGod washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
Harriet Beecher StoweSipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.
Mariah CareyLet tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Seneca the YoungerSong, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.
Louise BoganO heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.
William Butler Yeats