Tears Quotes - Page 34

• But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, Light, Language

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 54

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• Sometimes you just gotta cry, but you never,ever do it in public.

  Nina Totenberg

  Sometimes, Cry

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• Home they brought her warrior dead: She nor swooned, nor uttered cry: All her maidens, watching, said, 'She must weep or she will die.' Then they praised him, soft and low, Called him worthy to be loved, Truest friend and noblest foe; Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place, Lightly to the warrior stepped, Took the face-cloth from the face; Yet she neither moved nor wept. Rose a nurse of ninety years, Set his child upon her knee- Like summer tempest came her tears- 'Sweet my child, I live for thee.' -Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Colleen Houck

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• There is no end to the creativity, ingenuity, and tenacity of those who look for reasons to criticize. They cannot seem to release their grip on grudges. They gossip and find fault with others. They nurse wounds for decades, taking every opportunity to tear down and demean others. This is not pleasing to the Lord, 'for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work' (James 3:16).

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Creativity, Opportunity, Nurse

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• Why do dying people never shed tears?

  Max Frisch

  Death, People, Dying

  Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

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• Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery. Soon it will be gone. The flower that has blossomed in the morning, by the evening will be gone. Don't get attached; otherwise in the evening there will be misery. Then there will be tears, then you will miss the flower. Enjoy while it is. But remember, it has come out of nothing, and it will go back to nothing. And the same is true about everything, even about people.

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Flower, Attachment

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• For the devil may tempt the good, but he cannot find rest in them; for he is shaken violently, and upset, and driven out, now by their prayers, now by their tears of repentance, and now by their almsgiving and similar good works.

  Bruno of Cologne

  Prayer, Upset, Devil

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• There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.

  Teresa of Avila

  Attachment, Self, Denial

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• Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

  Lucretius

  Death, Past, Leaving

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• It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

  George Eliot

  Death, Brother, Journey

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• All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart of all the inhibitions of the past. And laughter and tears can do both. Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy. Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Laughter, Past

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• Some say the world is a vale of tears, I say it is a place of soul-making.

  John Keats

  Soul, World

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• I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.

  Gunter Grass

  Kissing, Years, Giving

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• The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again. - Cian MacKeltar

  Karen Marie Moning

  Regret, Burning, Twenties

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1694, Dell

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• The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Secret, Answers

  Joyce Carol Oates (2013). “The Accursed: A Novel”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar straight up into the ninth heaven and ask the prisoner of the moon, Wu Kang' what is there. He offers them wine from the cassia tree. The lonely lady on the moon, Chang 0, spreads her vast sleeves and dances for these good souls in the unending sky. Down on earth a sudden report of the tiger's defeat. Tears fly down from a great upturned bowl of rain.

  Mao Zedong

  Lonely, Rain, Wine

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• The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.

  Laurence Sterne

  Angel, Flew Up, Forever

  'Tristram Shandy' (1759-67) bk. 6, ch. 8

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• The tears had turned to ink.

  Dawna Markova

  Writing, Ink

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion”, p.4, Conari Press

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• Grief isn't all tears.

  Patti Smith

  Grief

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• Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Pain, Failure, Adversity

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• Intelligence forbids tears.

  Doris Lessing

  Intelligence

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears.

  Pope Francis

  Eye, Reality, Certain

  "Pope Francis’ Silent Response to the Filipino Girl: What He Might Have Been Thinking" by Stafford Betty, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2015.

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• Eating, drinking. sleeping, pro-creating. A little laughter, a lot of tears. Is this all there is to life? Don't die like a worm on the surface of the planet. WAKE UP and be all that you can be, you are so much more than that.

  Sivananda

  Laughter, Drinking, Sleep

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• Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Heart, Climbing, Blood

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• You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can change... but it takes blood, sweat and tears.

  Bob Maguire

  Blood, Sweat, Community

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