Tears Quotes - Page 25

• FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

  Beverly Donofrio

  Girl, Book, Eye

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• Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark;
  Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us?
  Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas,
  Cut off from my family I leave my native land.
  Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison,
  With heated heart arouse all women's spirits.
  Alas, this delicate kerchief here
  Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.

  Qiu Jin

  Heart, Dark, Cutting

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mothers breast? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone. Shall I dig under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men. But how dare I cut off my mother's hair.

  Smohalla

  Dream, Mother, Native American

  "Wisdom of the North American Indian in speech and legend". Book by Alexander Francis Chamberlain, 1913.

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• First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  Rain, Firsts, Acid

  1986 Successfully Single.

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• Haven't shed a single tear, but I'm hurtin' down inside.

  Capital STEEZ

  Havens, Shed

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• A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old, and so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.

  Ben Ames Williams

  Dog, Boys, Men

  Ben Ames Williams (1923). “Thrifty Stock: And Other Stories”

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• Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs. My only prayer is that you'll realize you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

  Joshua Kadison

  Beautiful, Prayer, Eye

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• One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.

  Helen Keller

  Years, Soul, Feelings

  Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen (2005). “Helen Keller: Selected Writings”, p.142, NYU Press

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• Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

  Paul Brodeur

  Education, Wisdom, Statistics

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• This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, Theres nothing true but Heaven.

  Charles Lamb

  Lying, Men, Shining

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• My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Friendship, Father, Speech

  "Ficciones".

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• And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Math, Appreciate, Maps

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard work, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears sometimes. No different to anything, no different to what we all do.

  Ed O'Brien

  Hard Work, Blood, Sweat

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• The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Keys, Europe, Together

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• Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

  Johann Gottfried Seume

  Men, Gambling, Circumstances

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• A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.

  Caroline Norton

  Nursing, Soldier, Dying

  "Bingen on the Rhine" l. 1 (1850)

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• If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Suffering

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• Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.

  Ferenc Molnar

  Heart, Sweat, Gold

  Ferenc Molnár (1925). “Prisoners: a novel”

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• It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.

  Andrew McMahon

  Morning, Thinking, Snow

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• In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

  Edmond Jabes

  Morning, Night, Color

  Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume II [Yaël; Elya; Aely; El, Or the Last Book]”, p.219, Wesleyan University Press

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• I wonder at the idleness of tears.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Wonder, Idleness

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1928). “Lizette Woodworth Reese ...”

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• When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Flower, Race, Dust

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• No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books.

  Xinran

  Book, Water, Soul

  Xinran (2010). “Sky Burial”, p.164, Random House

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