Tears Quotes - Page 33

• "I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

  Winston Churchill

  War, Blood, Sweat

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Heart, Sick

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.483, 谷月社

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• He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Stars, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

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• PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Plus, Reasonable, Conscience

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.

  Chris Avellone

  Fate, Army, Hands

  "Planescape: Torment". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Every time I look down on this timeless town, whether blue or gray be her skies, whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears, more and more do I realize that...I love Paris.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Cheer, Blue, Sky

  Song: I Love Paris

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• During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose as one man and applauded him. When the spontaneous cheering has subsided, Toscanini turned to his men, tears glistening in his eyes. "Please . . . please! Don't do this! You see, gentlemen, it isn't me you should applaud. It's Beethoven!"

  James Keller

  Cheer, Eye, Men

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• There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

  Charles Durning

  War, Frustrated, Ems

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• They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

  William Johnson Cory

  News, Bitter, Shed

  'Heraclitus'; translation of Callimachus 'Epigram 2' in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)

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• But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.

  Walter Scott

  Country, Men, Woe

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.123

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• I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me, and I started shaking. And then I walked back into the house and my wife asked, 'What's the matter?' And I said, 'I don't feel good.' And tears, uncontrollable tears, was coming out of my eyes and she says, 'What's the matter?' And I told her. I said, 'I just thought about that execution that I did two days ago, and everybody else's that I was involved in.' And what it was, something triggered within, and it just, everybody - all of these executions all sprung forward.

  Fred Allen

  Eye, Two, Wife

  "In America; Inside the Death House" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2000.

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• I can still smell the tear gas in the Hilton Hotel.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Smell, Hospitality, Hotel

  "Eugene McCarthy" by Harold Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2005.

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• The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Christian, Country

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

  John Milton

  Weakness, Noble, May

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1721

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• My country tears of thee.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Country, America, Thee

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958). “A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightning is made of, for everything comes back to the weather. Tears like rain. Smiles like the sun. Hair as dry as sand and fear like the dark ocean.

  Sara Sheridan

  Rain, Ocean, Grandmother

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• I couldn't have asked for anything more than this. Winning the World Cup is the proudest moment of my life. Thanks to my team-mates. Without them, nothing would have happened. I couldn't control my tears of joy.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Team, Winning, Joy

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• Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Taken, Heart, Vengeance

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.46, 谷月社

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• I think every discovery of the world plunges us into jubilation, a radical amazement that tears apart the veil of triviality.

  Judy Cannato

  Thinking, Discovery, Environmental

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• All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace.

  Billy Graham

  Comfort, Cry, Guidance

  Billy Graham (2011). “Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Doe, Cry

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• I cry every chance I get.

  Richard Gere

  Chance, Cry

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• Are all men in disguise except those crying?

  Dannie Abse

  Men, Cry, Disguise

  Dannie Abse (1986). “Ask the bloody horse”, Vintage

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• Much outcry, little outcome.

  Aesop

  Littles, Outcomes, Cry

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Cry, Made

  "She Stoops to Conquer".

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