Tears Quotes

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

~ Jesse Jackson

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

~ Rumi

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

~ William Gilmore Simms

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

~ Lucy Larcom

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

~ Victor Hugo

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

~ Betty White

I saw a cardinal when I was in Brooklyn, and I was almost moved to tears. I was, like, 'I can't believe this thing is legal. I can't believe this thing is in the wild. How did this happen? How has someone not killed them all? They're so conspicuous. They're gorgeous. How can they still be alive?'

~ Nell Zink

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

~ Alfred Adler