Tears Quotes - Page 56

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

I hadn't even dreamed of getting another Academy Award, and there I was unhappy in my private life and miserable, I remember Odets drove me three times around the Biltmore, where the Oscars were given out, because I was so full of tears.

Pity's tears are spontaneous.

But we survived, and we're a good family. I just don't want to dedicate one more tear, or watch my mother cry one more time.

UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.

I don't always choose to stay fit by playing tennis, because that comes with its own wear-and-tear.

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.

You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is getting talked about.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.

O Love, O great god Love, what have I done, That thou shouldst hunger so after my death? My heart is harmless as my life's first day: Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.

And down I went to fetch my bride: But, Alice, you were ill at ease; This dress and that by turns you tried, Too fearful that you should not please. I loved you better for your fears, I knew you could not look but well; And dews, that would have fall'n in tears, I kiss'd away before they fell.

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.

Thank you,” he was whispering, “thank you, thank you.…” And then he was kissing my face, every inch of it he could find, wiping away the tears and soot, chanting my name.

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.