Tears Quotes - Page 26

• Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Attitude, Thinking, Space

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Sad Love, Fall, Eye

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Aug 30, 2013

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• He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.

  Robert South

  Opportunity, Men, Names

  Robert South (1823). “Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.431

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• Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Needs, Argument, Sympathetic

  J. Sidlow Baxter (1994). “Awake, My Heart: Daily Devotional Studies for the Year”, p.332, Kregel Publications

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• Don't boast about your hardheartedness or refusal to shed tears. Instead, pray that God will give you a tender heart which will sympathize with others.

  Lee Roberson

  Heart, Giving, Praying

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• The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.

  Lee Roberson

  Moving, Forever, Gone

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• I want to get just as many people ready for Heaven as I can. Hell is a place where there is 'weeping and gnashing of teeth'; Heaven is a place of joy, happiness and no tears . . . Being a soul winner is greater than being a preacher or a great doctor or a great dentist or a great businessman. Let's get people ready for Heaven.

  Lee Roberson

  Doctors, People, Joy

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• I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears, and it is there too that the colored woman of America has made her characteristic history and there her destiny is evolving.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Country, Destiny, Blood

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.202, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

  Kohta Hirano

  Heart, Wish, Storm

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• When a human's tears finally dry up forever, they transform into a monster.

  Kohta Hirano

  Dry Up, Forever, Monsters

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• In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Body, Eating, Defective

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• There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

  Lucian

  Serial Killer, Cry, Make You Cry

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• Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Farewell, Fans

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• Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Life, Love Is, Expression

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• The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Grief, Book, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions”

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• You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.

  Jason Epstein

  Rest In Peace, Spring, Flower

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• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Laughter, Care

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients.

  Zach Braff

  Cancer, Laughing, Patient

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• You know what it takes to win. Just look at my fist. When I make a fist, it's strong and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength. We must become so close with the bonds of loyalty and sacrifice, so deep with the conviction of the sole purpose, that no one, no group, no thing, can ever tear us apart.

  Ara Parseghian

  Loyalty, Strong, Sacrifice

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• By the tons it is coming into this country - the deadly, dreadful poison that racks and tears not only the body, but the very heart and soul of every human being who once becomes a slave to it in any of its cruel and devastating forms. Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hasheesh makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him.

  Harry J. Anslinger

  Country, Heart, Cutting

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• UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.

  Andy Stern

  Veils, Causes, Economic

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• The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

  Georg Simmel

  Hands, Order, Organization

  "The Metropolis and Modern Life" by Georg Simmel (1903), translated by Kurt Wolff in "The Sociology of Georg Simmel" edited by D. Weinstein, New York: Free Press, (p. 422), 1950.

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• Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.

  Anne Desclos

  Faithful, Suffering, Cages

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• As a matter of fact," the other voice went on, "if you do tie her up from time to time, or whip her just a little, and she begins to like it, that's no good either. You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

  Anne Desclos

  Past, Ties, Voice

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• Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Loyalty, Decision

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