Tears Quotes - Page 21
Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)
I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.
Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.4, Knopf Books for Young Readers
I will tear this folly from my heart, though every fibre bleed as I rend it away!
Walter Scott (2015). “The Waverly Novels: 26 Books in One Volume – Complete Collection: Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Waverly, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, Kenilworth, Legend of Montrose”, p.1929, e-artnow
Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.46, Vintage
War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.
Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.8, Macmillan
If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.
Shauna Niequist (2013). “Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes”, p.65, Zondervan
Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.89
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.4071, e-artnow
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there be words not made with lungs.
"Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems".
But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.316, Open Road Media