Tears Quotes - Page 21

• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dream, Children, Pain

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• The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.

  Faraaz Kazi

  True Love, Heart, Eye

  Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.284, Faraaz Kazi

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• Upon that cross of Jesus Mine eye at times can see The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me; And from my smitten heart with tears Two wonders I confess The wonders of redeeming love and my unworthiness.

  Elizabeth C. Clephane

  Friday, Jesus, Heart

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• A day to God is a thousand years,
  Men walk around with a thousand fears.
  The true joy of love brings a thousand tears,
  In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

  RZA

  Love, God, Song

  Song: A Day To God Is 1000 Years

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• The first lady in my life, but now you're gone,
  I learned through the years to keep carrying on.
  Your picture brings me tears and memories,
  The way things could be...and they should be, but they're not.

  Afrika Baby Bam

  Memories, Rap, Years

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• You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

  Linda Evans

  Men, Reality, Age

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• It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Pride, Reality, Order

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• Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Grief, Arrivals

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• More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.

  Sandra Worth

  Regret, Stories, Return

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• The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.

  Walter Scott

  Hope, Morning, Fear

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.79

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• Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Peace, Fear, Eye

  'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

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• And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said seemed strangely answered now. Could it be I'm in love? Could it be I'm in love?

  Jann Arden

  Falling In Love, Stars, Prayer

  Song: It Looks Like Rain, Album: Living Under June, 1994

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• Tears mess up your makeup.

  Julia Child

  Makeup, Kitchen, Mess

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 15, 2014.

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• In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

  Joseph Stalin

  Dream, Mean, People

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• Young Alexander conquered India.
  He alone?
  Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army?
  Philip of Spain wept as his fleet was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?
  Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War. Who
  Triumphed with him?

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Army, Years

  Bertolt Brecht, “A Worker Reads History”

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• After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

  Cobi Jones

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

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• I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? It's like crying for your mother after she's gone. You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball, and I knew I had to leave it.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Often, during combat, the warrior of light receives blows that he was not expecting. And he realizes that, during a war, his enemy is bound to win some of the battles. When this happens, the warrior of light weeps bitter tears and rests in order to recover his energies a little. But he immediately resumes the battle for his dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, War

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• Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

  Roberto Bolano

  Rain, Blood, Sweat

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• There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Done

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• I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

  Mia Couto

  Years, Saws, Firsts

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• If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Book, Character

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• Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Blood, Teeth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86

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• We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.

  Maurice Samuel

  Enemy, Satisfaction, Homeless

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• There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

  Bernard Cornwell

  War, Mean, World

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