Tears And Grief Quotes
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The heart's smiles help wipe away the soul's tears.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.
— Philemon
I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
Faith would get her through when she had to face tomorrow, but her grief needed the tears to fall. There was healing in those tears.
— Dee Henderson
It is in vain to wipe away tears in the rain.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.
— Donna Lynn Hope
We cried. The bones and dust of our fathers cried with us.
— Sharon Ewell Foster
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.
— Patricia Briggs
My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.
— Sanhita Baruah
The tears of the young who go their way, last a day; But the grief is long of the old who stay.
— John Townsend Trowbridge
There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.
— Washington Irving
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.
— Sophocles
We are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.
— Michelle Moran
He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.
— Julius Lester
Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.
— C.J. Redwine
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
— Jose N. Harris
Let the young rain of tears come, let the calm hands of grief come. It's not all as evil as you think.
— Rolf Jacobsen
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?
— Jeanette Winterson
In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.
— Mary Todd Lincoln
Do not cry," she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. "Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.
— Melina Marchetta
The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep? — Adelaide Crapsey
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep? — Adelaide Crapsey
For affliction has opened my eyes,
and tears given me sight.
Grief has taught me the language of hearts. — Kahlil Gibran
and tears given me sight.
Grief has taught me the language of hearts. — Kahlil Gibran
It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
— Seneca The Younger
Tears are the sound the heart makes when it breaks.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Tears of joy are lighter than smiles of sorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In rising sighs and falling tears.
— Joseph Addison
Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Only fake tears last forever.
— Marty Rubin
The soul's tears are worth more than the heart's smiles.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Her grief for both of them was flavored with guilt the way salt flavors the sea; she could taste it in the tears.
— Sharon Cameron
Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
— Jacqueline Carey
I repeat the words that I wish someone would say to me, and then suddenly we are kissing. I taste his grief and his need and his tears and my tears.
— Gayle Forman
But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.
— Elizabeth Lesser
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.
— Simon Van Booy
Tears are the silent language of grief
— Voltaire
Grief that finds no relief in tears makes other organs weep.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
Just as when clouds are full they pour out rain, so when men are full of grief, they pour out tears.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.
— Kate Kerrigan
Surviving makes other people's tears unbearable. You might drown in them.
— Marceline Loridan-Ivens
Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.
— William Shakespeare
Beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears ...
— John Geddes
Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.
— George R R Martin
She cried so hard her tears formed a river, and tears of grief always run into the river Styx.
— Janette Rallison
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
— Euripides
I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.
— Klaus Kinski
I'm crying again. I cry so often now that sometimes I don't even realize it until the tears are already streaming down my cheeks.
— Kim Holden
The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
— Anne Lamott
It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.
— Heinrich Heine
Tears have always been easier to shed than explain.
— Marty Rubin
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief
— Publilius Syrus
In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.
— Kohta Hirano
Cry, child, for those without tears have a grief which never ends.
— Luis J. Rodriguez
God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
The memory was so painful that tears came into my eyes, and a pang of grief tore through my body.
— Skeelo Khumalo
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere ... Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Grief isn't all tears.
— Patti Smith
Her only weapons were her tears.
— Eiji Yoshikawa