Tears Falling Quotes

• The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

  Hiro Mashima

  Heartbroken, Pain, Fall

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• The sorrow which has no vent in tears
  may make other organs weep.

  Henry Maudsley

  Inspirational, Sad, Grief

  Henry Maudsley (1895). “The Pathology of Mind”

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• Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

  Kami Garcia

  Fall, Moon, Years

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Sixteen Moons - Eine unsterbliche Liebe”, p.398, cbj Verlag

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• Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Fall, Fire, Heaven

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• ... He didn't know how to say good-bye. His throat ached from the strain of holding back his emotions. “I don't want to leave you,” he said humbly, reaching for her cold, stiff hands. Emma lowered her head, her tears falling freely. “I'll never see you again, will I?” He shook his head. “Not in this lifetime,” he said hoarsely. She pulled her hands away and wrapped her arms around his neck. He felt her wet lashes brush his cheek. “Then I'll wait a hundred years,” she whispered. “Or a thousand, if I must. Remember that, Nikki. I'll be waiting for you to come to me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fall, Bye, Hands

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• It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

  Stevie Smith

  Fall, Water, Hatred

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

  Garth Nix

  Fall, Tears, Faces

  Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.160, Hot Key Books

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• The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Simple, Tears

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.16

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• Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Eye, Tears

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes”, p.437

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