Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juvenal

Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.

Blaise Pascal

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

Elie Wiesel

I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!

Clive Barker

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid. That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.

Anna Wintour

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Aesop

Much outcry, little outcome.

Aeschylus

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Aleister Crowley

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Alex Garland

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.

Andre Leon Talley

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Ambrose Bierce

LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

Albert Camus

Life should be lived to the point of tears

Alfred Hitchcock

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Andy Stern

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.

William Shakespeare

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

Thomas Hood

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Raymond Carver

But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.

Rip Taylor

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We weep when we are born, Not when we die!

Raymond Williams

If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable.

Victoria Woodhull

The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell.

Victor Hugo

An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.

Veronica Roth

I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.

Sutton Foster

And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.

Stephen King

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.

Tacitus

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Rumi

The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.

Shelley Winters

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

Richard Hell

I'm someone who's really susceptible to tears.

John Milton

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

Michael Ondaatje

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

Megan Fox

I've learned that being a celebrity is like being a sacrificial lamb. At some point, no matter how high the pedestal that they put you on, they're going to tear you down.