Tears Quotes - Page 19

• There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Voice, Cost

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The question and the cry 'Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance 'I am!'

  Rabindranath Tagore

  World, Cry, Flood

  Rabindranath Tagore, William Radice (2011). “Gitanjali: Song Offerings”, p.176, Penguin Books India

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• Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Love Is, Heaven, Solitude

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Laughter, Sleep, Laughing

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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• It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Disappointment, Grief, Sorrow

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• One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the approachings of events towards objects, therefore of becoming stases static stagnant, of all that is unreal. You get in the world, you get your daily life your routine doesn’t matter if you’re rich poor legal illegal, you begin to believe what doesn’t change is real, and love comes along and shows all these unchangeable for ever fixtures to be flimsy paper bits. Love can tear anything to shreds.

  Kathy Acker

  Real, Believe, Events

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• I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Father, Artist, Firefighter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.

  Saint Augustine

  Regret, Heart, Sadness

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• He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.

  Eliza R. Snow

  People, Widows, Cry

  Eliza R. SNOW (1856). “Poems, religious, historical, and political”, p.136

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• I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

  Jane Elliott

  Christmas, Mom, Easter

  "Jane Elliot Dishes Her Role as General Hospital's Queen of Mean". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. May 15, 2012.

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• If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

  William Butler Yeats

  Wind, Hatred, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.93

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• Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.

  Neville Figgis

  Love, Father, Character

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• I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

  Jay London

  Boyfriend, Father, Blunt

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• My father taught me how to substitute realities.

  Mira Sorvino

  Dad, Father, Reality

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• I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Boyfriend, Father, Lifestyle

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• My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

  Victor Borge

  Mother, Dad, Father

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• When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

  Robert Bly

  Boyfriend, Children, Dad

  Robert Bly (2015). “Iron John: A Book about Men”, p.59, Da Capo Press

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• Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

  Michael Fassbender

  Break Up, Breakup, Character

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• With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

  Keisha Buchanan

  Depression, Sometimes, Mental Illness

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• A free theologian works in communication with other theologians...He waits for them and asks them to wait for him. Our sadly lacking yet indispensable theological co-operation depends directly or indirectly on whether or not we are wiling to wait for one another, perhaps lamenting, yet smiling with tears in our eyes.

  Karl Barth

  Communication, Eye, Waiting

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• The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sunshine, Community, Soul

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• My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

  William Wordsworth

  Heart, Eye, Sound

  William Wordsworth (1828). “The Poetical Works”, p.231

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• She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Heart, Humble

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.66

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• We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give, is all that will endure Just like a rose after the rain Something beautiful remains Tears will leave no stains Time will ease the pain For every life that fades Something beautiful remains

  Tina Turner

  Beautiful, Stars, Pain

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• Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Beautiful, Pure

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