Tears Quotes

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving

Love, Power, Deep

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill

Nothing, Blood, Sweat

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

Life, God, Help

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter, Laugh, Less

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty, Soul, Whatever

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama

Work, Today, Children

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost

Writer, Surprise, Reader

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden

Strong, Cannot, Adversity

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus

Men, Live, Point

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham

Strength, Self, Others

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Men, Often, Far

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
William Blake

Nature, Eyes, Joy

Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire

Silent, Language, Grief

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Laughter, Wife

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
Paulo Coelho

Waiting, Words, Cry

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland

Laughter, Try, Bring

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cry, Nobody, Deserves

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo

Smile, Laughter, Joy

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
Kin Hubbard

Christmas, Nothing, Spirit

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laughter, Remember, Smiles

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Isak Dinesen

Sea, Water, Sweat

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Cat Stevens

Laughter, Looking, Cry

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Place, Secret, Land

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
Marlene Dietrich

Face, Germany, Cried

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Words, Left, Deeds

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
Ben Stein

Funny, Good, Experience

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope

Laugh, Almost, Seen

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Prayers, Unanswered, Answered

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou

Rain, Joy, Summer

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