Tears Quotes - Page 22

• Haven't shed a single tear, but I'm hurtin' down inside.

  Capital STEEZ

  Havens, Shed

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• The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.

  Emma Goldman

  Children, Army, People

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

  Betty Jane Wylie

  Rain, Firsts, Acid

  1986 Successfully Single.

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• FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

  Beverly Donofrio

  Girl, Book, Eye

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• The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

  Georg Buchner

  Stars, Pain, Eye

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act IV, 1835.

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• I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to

  Edwidge Danticat

  Daughter, Children, Memories

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• The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

  Maureen Dowd

  Sacrifice, White, Appreciate

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• After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

  Cobi Jones

  Soccer, Sports, Athlete

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• Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

  Myrtle Reed

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Myrtle Reed (1906). “Later Love Letters of a Musician”

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• Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Grandma, Years, Giving

  Hilaire Belloc (1958). “Letters”

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• Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.

  R. T. Kendall

  Love Is, Choices, Feelings

  R.T. Kendall (2010). “Total Forgiveness: When Everything in You Wants to Hold a Grudge, Point a Finger, and Remember the Pain—God Wants You to Lay it All Aside”, p.33, Charisma Media

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• I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

  James Martineau

  Life And Love, Heart, Grieving

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• My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Friendship, Father, Speech

  "Ficciones".

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• And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Math, Appreciate, Maps

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Keys, Europe, Together

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• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sweet, Hate, Eye

  George Bernard Shaw (2011). “You Never Can Tell”, p.115, The Floating Press

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• If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

  Claude Vorilhon

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Suffering

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• Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.

  Ferenc Molnar

  Heart, Sweat, Gold

  Ferenc Molnár (1925). “Prisoners: a novel”

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• It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.

  Andrew McMahon

  Morning, Thinking, Snow

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• In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

  Edmond Jabes

  Morning, Night, Color

  Edmond Jabes, Edmond Jabès, Rosmarie Waldrop (1991). “The Book of Questions: Volume II [Yaël; Elya; Aely; El, Or the Last Book]”, p.219, Wesleyan University Press

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• I wonder at the idleness of tears.

  Lizette Woodworth Reese

  Wonder, Idleness

  Lizette Woodworth Reese (1928). “Lizette Woodworth Reese ...”

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• You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you’re walking fast, if the sun’s too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people’s consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

  Jerry Pinto

  Strong, Long, People

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• Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Beautiful, Eye

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• When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

  Yvonne Craig

  Couple, Light, Long

  "R.I.P. Yvonne Craig, TV's Batgirl and Star Trek guest star" by Mike Vanderbilt, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2015.

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• The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and you will discover that they base their diverse doctrines on the foundation of a large spiritual serenity. Analyze the prayers of troubled, overborne mankind of all creeds, in every age-and their petitions come down to the irreducible common denominators of daily bread and inward peace. Grown men do not pray for vain trifles. When they lift up their hearts and voices in the valley of tears they ask for strength and courage and understanding.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Spiritual, Peace, Prayer

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