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Tears Quotes - Page 20

When I came to explain to them the 'Nelson Touch', it was like an electric shock. Some shed tears, all approved - 'It was new - it was singular - it was simple!'.

Horatio Nelson (2012). “The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters”, p.69, tredition

When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.236, Random House

All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are rainbowed out in tears.

Gerald Massey (1889). “My Lyrical Life: Poems Old and New”

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.589, Bantam

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

George Orwell, Duncan Macmillan, Robert Icke (2013). “1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, p.45, Oberon Books

... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

Dorothy Hewett (1968). “Windmill country”

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “The Way to Freedom: 1935-1939, from the Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”, New York : Harper & Row

People are freer in America. But there are more tears.

Avi, Greg Ruth (2012). “City of Orphans”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

Joy steals upon me, such joy as calls forth tears.

Aeschylus (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides”, p.7, Everyman's Library

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.45