quotations about tears
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
THOMAS PAINE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.
LISA KLEYPAS
Mine Till Midnight
Intelligence forbids tears.
DORIS LESSING
A Man and Two Women
But I'm a poor comforter if I'm overcome by my own sighs, and when tears are wrung from my breaking heart along with my words.
PETE SOCKS
"Carried to heaven by angels", Patheos, June 16, 2017
A lifetime of questions
Tears on your cheek
I tasted the answers
And my body was weak
RUSH
"Tears"
The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Short Circuits
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 resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL
Journal Intime
Who can refrain from tears, whose eye of reason hath snatched but a cursory glance of mankind's numerous woes? Who but he whose heart is made of stone, and is lost to every impression of benevolence.
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On Man's Extreme Misery By Sin", Select Essays, Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.
ANNE GIARDINI
The Sad Truth About Happiness
Emotions are to be celebrated! Tears are good!
JUSTIN BALDONI
"Justin Baldoni Writes Emotional Letter to His Unborn Son in Sweet Gender Reveal", People, June 1, 2017
Bottled tears are useless.
MRS. C. V. HAMILTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
A light heart in the morning may yet bring tears before evening.
ANNE ISABELLA THACKERAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Tears are a necessary part of my day-to-day functioning. They are a way for me to process all of my emotions. And I will never deprive my child of the opportunity for him to experience a wide range of emotions, both the good and the bad. For that reason, I will never tell my little boy to stop crying.... Even when his tears are the result of him acting like a wild little monster, they are still borne of true emotion.
KELLY GREEN
"I'll Never Tell My Son To Stop Crying, Because He Has A Right To His Own Feelings", Romper, May 30, 2017
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
T. MOORE
attributed, Day's Collacon
A broken heart bleeds tears.
STEVE MARABOLI
Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Tears are an indication of being well beyond the breaking point.
AMMI MIDSTOKKE
"Coping mechanisms for the unexpected disasters", The Spokesman-Review, June 3, 2017
Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
Egeria: or Voices of Though and Counsel for the Woods and Wayside
Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
DAVID RICHO
The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Return of the King