Tears Quotes - Page 32

Tears at times have the weight of speech.

He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?

How life teaches us, breaks us, rewards us, and tears us apart... how it lifts us up and brings us down... the wonder of life.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Lancelot: Morgaine, Morgaine - kinswoman, I have never seen you weep. Morgaine: Are you like so many men, afraid of a woman's tears? (...) Lancelot: No (...) it makes them seem so much more real, so much more vulnerable - women who never weep frighten me, because I know they are stronger than I, and I am always a little afraid of what they will do.

He will wipe the tears from all faces.' It takes nothing from the loveliness of the verse to say that is exactly what will be required

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

My heart is empty & my life has no value anymore. Each moment a thousand tears.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing

If you ever managed to make me cry, my tears would sear your face.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

If you cant laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them, no one else will either.

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

I'd be damned if I let him see the tears in my eyes.

I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.