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Tear Quotes (page 8)

Louise Erdrich quote: "Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears."
Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears. Louise Erdrich
Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great. Zane Grey
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes. Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone. Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind. To comprehend the universe: nor these. Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were... George Byron
Isak Dinesen quote: "The cure for anything is salt water? sweat, tears, or the salt..."
The cure for anything is salt water? sweat, tears, or the salt sea. Isak Dinesen
We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness Jose Saramago
All the first years, their only question had been -- asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stone, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive?" "Is she alive? Mark Twain
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The gentle maid, whose hapless tale, these melancholy pages speak; say, gracious lady, shall she fail. To draw the tear a down from thy cheek? Horace Walpole
Philip Levine quote: "I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last...."
I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. Philip Levine
And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? Mervyn Peake
No, she answered, “one is of tin, and one of straw; one is a girl and another a Lion. None of them is fit to work, so you may tear them into small pieces. Lynda Barry
You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to. Jodi Picoult
Vladimir Nabokov quote: "...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)..."
...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)... Vladimir Nabokov
Albert Camus quote: "Live to the point of tears."
Live to the point of tears. Albert Camus
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? C. S. Lewis

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