Tears Quotes - Page 17

• This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

  Shelley Fabares

  People, Soul, Stronger

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Pouring, Faces, Screening

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• I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

  Zac Efron

  Guy, Sometimes, Cry

  "What I know about women..." by Zac Efron, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2007.

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• War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

  Aberjhani

  War, Land, Mind

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.1, Lulu.com

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• The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

  Laurence Olivier

  Drama, Exercise, Light

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride

  Lil Wayne

  Pride, Four, Faces

  Song: La La, Album: Tha Carter III, 2008

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• Weep not for me. Rather let your tears flow for the sorrows of the multitude. My work is done. Like a ripe fruit I admit the gathering. Death has no terrors for it is a wise law of nature. I am ready whenever the summons may come.

  Lucretia Mott

  Wise, Law, Sorrow

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• Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: Lou, youre a leading man because youre a good actor. Brought tears to my eyes.

  Lou Diamond Phillips

  Eye, Men, Class

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• I opened a book and in I strode.
  Now nobody can find me.
  I've left my chair, my house, my road,
  My town and my world behind me.
  I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
  I've swallowed the magic potion.
  I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
  And dived in a bottomless ocean.
  I opened a book and made some friends.
  I shared their tears and laughter
  And followed their road with its bumps and bends
  To the happily ever after.
  I finished my book and out I came.
  The cloak can no longer hide me.
  My chair and my house are just the same,
  But I have a book inside me.

  Julia Donaldson

  Kings, Laughter, Ocean

  Julia Donaldson (2015). “Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• I will not be tortured! I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

  Bela Lugosi

  Torture

  "Fictional character: Dr. Richard Vollin". "The Raven", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

  Broderick Crawford

  Boyfriend, Mother, Dad

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• When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

  Tyler Shields

  Artist, Blood, Sweat

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• I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

  David Hockney

  People, Interesting, Doubt

  David Hockney, Paul Joyce (1988). “Hockney on photography: conversations with Paul Joyce”, Harmony

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• Few tears will be shed over the demise of the East German army, but what about East Germany’s eighty symphony orchestras, bound to lose some subsidies? Or the whole East German system, which covered everyone in a security blanket from day care to health care, from housing to education? Some people are beginning to express, if ever so slightly, nostalgia for that Berlin Wall.

  Bob Simon

  Wall, Army, Day Care

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• A lot of people worry about
  the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
  I feel it's more a matter
  of people treating the things that surround them
  with respect.

  Albert Hadley

  Worry, People, Matter

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Laughter, Frustration, Thinking

  "Palm Sunday". Kurt Vonnegut's sermon at St. Clement's Church in New York City (1980), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You", 1980.

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• Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Deconstruction, Jokes

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• Rivers of tear drops, these sharp pains in my heart, if this was the way that you love, you never should have loved me

  Ashanti

  Pain, Love You, Heart

  Song: Never Should Have, 2014

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• There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

  Shirley Knight

  Family, Mother, Children

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• The history of those who shed those other tears, the history of those anonymous millions, is what Terkel wants readers and listeners to come away with. What's it like to be that goofy little soldier, scared stiff, with his bayonet aimed at Christ? What's it like to have been a woman in a defense-plant job during World War II? What's it like to be a kid at the front lines? It's all funny and tragic at the same time.

  Studs Terkel

  Funny, Jobs, War

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• My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it

  Jay-Z

  Pockets, Rags, Looking For Love

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• Holmes is so ugly, his grandmother said when he started to cry the tears would stop and roll down the back of his head.

  Muhammad Ali

  Grandmother, Boxing, Ugly

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• Tears were for the weaker days, I'm stronger now

  Rihanna

  Stronger

  Song: What Now, Album: Unapologetic

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• Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.

  Janet Morris

  Beach, Home, Fate

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.176, Paradise Publishing

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