Tears Quotes

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

~ Paulo Coelho

I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child

~ Thomas Burnett Swann

I can't loose you...you are the whole reason for everything in my life. Please don't do this!

~ T.k. Chapin

Rain may cleanse the Earth, but it doesn't wash away our tears.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

~ J.k. Rowling

I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.

~ Tyler Knott Gregson

She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and tears rolling down her cheeks.

~ Akshay Vasu

Is the ocean simply a great pool of tears? I should like to think that even the stars must cry.

~ K.b. Ezzell

A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart.

~ Anthony Liccione

But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.

~ Margaret Atwood

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

~ Charles Dickens

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

~ Charles Dickens

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

~ Mary Balogh

Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

He'd always known that shit rolled downhill, but he never knew tears did the same thing.

~ Amy Lane

No one can share in your sorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Mourn with those are sorrowful.Be happy with those who are joyful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Tears ache in my throat and each time his lips caress mine I’m closer to the dam within me bursting open. He’s undoing me, tearing out my demons with burning strokes of his lips and the salty taste of his mouth. In his arms, I’m changing, becoming anew.

~ Sarah Noffke

When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale,Tears our best hopes away, the wounded HeartExhausted, leans on all that can impartThe charm of Sympathy; her mutual wailHow soothing! never can her warm tears failTo balm our bleeding grief's severest smart;Nor wholly vain feign'd Pity's solemn art,Tho' we should penetrate her sable veil.Concern, e'en known to be assum'd, our painsRespecting, kinder welcome far acquiresThan cold Neglect, or Mirth that Grief profanes.Thus each faint Glow-worm of the Night conspires,Gleaming along the moss'd and darken'd lanes,To cheer the Gloom with her unreal fires.

~ Anna Seward

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

~ George R.r. Martin

Weep hard as much as you need, but do not let your tears pursue the sorrow for the rest of your life.

~ Munia Khan

Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

~ Amy Tan

Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow.

~ Cecil Thounaojam

The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.

~ William Goldman

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.

~ Mitch Albom

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

~ Dean Koontz

Hiding my pain and acting strong, afraid to cry and show my tears, I struggle with all this years later.

~ Erin Merryn

I hate tears,it makes it easy to forget someone.

~ Sandeep Kumar Mishra

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.

~ David Richo

Each tear being shed holds a thousand pounds of truth.

~ Audrey Regan

I wish I hadn't cried so much! said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today.

~ Lewis Carroll

If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.

~ Duane Hewitt

His other hand finds my cheek, and he wipes away my tears with his thumb. The chocolate scent overwhelms me as he bends over and whispers in my ear, “No, Cassie. No, no, no.”I throw my arm around his neck and press his dry cheek against my wet one. I’m shaking like an epileptic, and for the first time I can feel the weight of the quilts on the top of my toes because the blinding dark sharpens your other senses.I’m a bubbling stew of random thoughts and feelings. I’m worried my hair might smell. I want some chocolate. This guy holding me—well, it’s more like I was holding him—has seen me in all my naked glory. What did he think about my body? What did I think about my body? Does God really care about promises? Do I really care about God? Are miracles something like the Red Sea parting or more like Evan Walker finding me locked in a block of ice in a wilderness of white?“Cassie, it’s going to be okay,” he whispers into my ear, chocolate breath.

~ Rick Yancey

When we see others cry it is difficult, not because of feeling their pain, but your own.

~ Paula Heller Garland

Neither words can bring you back... I know now,as I have triedNot the tears... I know now, as I have cried

~ Kiran Joshi

There is so much to see and learn here that I often find I'm not blinking in case I miss anything. I have to use artificial tears to moisten my eyes.

~ Jay Woodman

Dead. The words fall from my tongue and linger there like poison. A slow death hanging from my lips. I shake the thought away and swallow but I can still taste the remnants in the back of my throat. It's sour and I gag a little as tears swell behind my eyes.

~ Celia Mcmahon

They embraced in parting. There were tears in the merchant’s eyes:“I do not like parting.”“Life consists of partings,” said Arseny. “But you can rejoice more fully in companionship when you remember that.”“But I would (the merchant Vladislav blew his nose) gather up all the good people I’ve met and never let them go.”“I think then they would quickly become mean,” smiled Ambrogio. (p. 238)

~ Evgenij Vodolazkin

The entire room turns and stares. There’s no doubt what they see—ripped jeans, a black T-shirt, tattoos and earrings. I don’t care what they see. All I care about is what she sees: a person unwelcomed or the guy she

~ Katie Mcgarry

Crying doesn't make you weak. There's sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go.

~ Sahana Epari