Tears Quotes - Page 39

• Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

  Spike Lee

  Criticism, Lucky, Down And

  Spike Lee, Terry McMillan (1991). “Five for five: the films of Spike Lee”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• In our day-to-day actions, it is often the small and simple things that will have a long-lasting impact (Alma 37:6-7). What we say, how we act, and how we choose to react will influence not only ourselves but also those around us. We can build up, or we can tear down.

  Per G. Malm

  Simple, Impact, Long

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• We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Heart, Science, Fate

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• I walk alone, assaulted it seems, by tears from heaven.

  Patti Smith

  Love, Dream, Heaven

  Song: Farewell Reel, Album: Gone Again

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• People say I'm the life of the party Because I tell a joke or two Although I might be laughing loud and hearty Deep inside I'm blue So take a good look at my face You'll see my smile looks out of place If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears.

  Smokey Robinson

  Song, Party, Blue

  "The Tracks of My Tears" (song) (1967). Cowritten with Warren Moore and Marvin Tarplin.

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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 we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it.

  Jennifer James

  Regret, Writing, Should Have

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Spring, Islamic

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• My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

  William Shatner

  Beautiful, Death, Laughter

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• ... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

  Dorothy Hewett

  Wisdom, Laughter, Bed

  Dorothy Hewett (1968). “Windmill country”

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• We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

  David Foreman

  Insecure, Land, Rivers

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• The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

  Charles Dickens

  White, Haunting, Ghost

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.412

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• When something or someone is hyped and you're put on the forefront of a lot of things, people want to tear you down. That's kind of scary, especially when you're not really putting yourself out there.

  Robert Pattinson

  People, Scary, Want

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• Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Seduction, Virtue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.242, Wordsworth Editions

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• Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.

  Alexander Smith

  Hurt, Heart, Missing

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.62, tredition

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• For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

  William Blake

  Truth, Hair, Dust

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.686, Pearson Education

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• I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead: cheers for the
  living; tears for the dead.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memorial Day, Cheer, Soldier

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3100, Library of Alexandria

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• I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.

  Robert Benchley

  Health, Eye, Hair

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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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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• The outsider may indeed wonder at this seeming much ado about nothing. What a tempest in a tea-cup! he will say. But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Tea, May, Outsiders

  Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.30, Tuttle Publishing

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• Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

  John Henry Newman

  Giving, Inspire, Religion

  John Henry Newman (1852). “Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin”, p.296

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• The Bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Yield, Treasure, Written

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• The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, Wish, Woe

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire I, line 90,

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• When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

  Lisa See

  Mother, Pain, Heart

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• Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

  Joao Magueijo

  Nature, Real, Sweat

  João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA

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